Today’s Headlines
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8:26 AM PDT on July 2, 2020
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
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