Today’s Headlines

Streetsblog will be taking a long weekend/short summer break and be back on Tuesday. Stay safe and healthy, and keep speaking up for justice.

• Rich City Rides’ Najari Smith settles with Oakland for unwarranted arrest during Bike Party (SF Gate)
• This is a pivotal moment for sustainable transportation (NRDC)
• Transit needs money (Long Beach Post)
• COVID has highlighted transit inequalities (Marketplace)
• Legal ruling on toll measure could finally release money for Bay Area transit (Press Democrat)
• Uber and Lyft insist they are above the law (SF Chronicle)
• Technology that tracks human movements is gathering pandemic data (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
• COVID impacts in Imperial County (SF Chronicle)
• Berkeley plans to form an unarmed DOT for traffic enforcement (CDL Life)
• Bay Area cities slash police budgets (SF Chronicle)
• Feinstein asks USDOT why CA has not received infrastructure grants (Sierra Sun Times)
• Now Trump wants to get rid of fair housing rules (Politico)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF