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Today’s Headlines

7:55 AM PDT on June 12, 2020

    • COVID and race, risk, and workforce equity (Policy Link)
    • The bicycle as a vehicle of protest (New Yorker)
    • Trek's statement on police use of bikes (Bicycle Retailer) is "laughable" (Cycling News)
    • BART, Santa Clara VTA, Riverside awarded federal funds for transit improvements (CBS)
    • Redding still looking to expand I-5 for trucks (Record Searchlight)
    • Assembly passes resolution to rein in electrification of HSR (Rail Journal)
    • Even a ten percent drop in VMT could reap major climate benefits (Smart Cities Dive)
    • Convention centers suck (life and money out of cities) (Seattle Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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