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Today’s Headlines

8:29 AM PDT on June 18, 2020

    • How to end anti-blackness in cities (Curbed)
    • Bicycles transformed the world (National Geographic)
    • Study: Skateboarding improves mental health, fosters community and resilience (Pullias Center)
    • Uber partners with Marin on "on-demand transit" as it sheds its scooters and bikes (Tech Crunch)
    • Coronavirus hospitalizations going up in some areas of CA (LA Times)
    • One in 13 San Francisco tenants broke their leases (SF Chronicle)
    • Trump's "Opportunity Zones" only helping real estate developers, not communities (NY Times)
    • Santa Monica to pilot voluntary zero-emissions delivery zone (Smart Cities Dive)
    • As oil prices crashed, idled tankers off L.A. coast spewed tons of pollution, GHGs over city (National Geographic)

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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