Today’s Headlines

8:29 AM PDT on June 15, 2020

New bill would fast-track sustainable transportation (SF Chronicle)
It makes economic sense to spend high speed rail money in the Central Valley (Air Quality Matters)
Travel still down in Sacramento, Stockton region (Capital Public Radio)
Gas tax is going up, on schedule, by 3 cents. Some look for excuses to freeze it (LA Times)
BART opens San Jose extension (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Fixing the post-COVID commute (Grist)
Corona Cycleways are a thing (NY Times)
Data shows no connection between transit, virus spread (The Atlantic)
Big gaps in data collection prevent understanding COVID's real impact on Black communities (Politico)
Fifty years of the Clean Air Act (Resources)
USDOT plans to send masks to transit agencies (Reuters)
Lessons from the pandemic: Valuing public transportation (Planetizen)

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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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