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

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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