Today’s Headlines

8:27 AM PDT on July 8, 2020

LA (and CA) transportation systems have always prioritized single-occupant private vehicles. That must change (The Source)
California transit agencies request emergency funding (Mass Transit)
How to make equity a priority (Urban Wire)
Best practices for mobility in response to the pandemic (Eltis)
Shoup: It's time for LA to try congestion pricing (CityLab)
Berkeley celebrates new bike lanes, 20 years ahead of schedule (Bike East Bay)
COVID changes SF commuting (North Bay Business Journal)
People still believe gas taxes are diverted from roads--that's false (Mercury News)
As people drive less, toll roads raise less moola for local projects (Washington Post)
CA's 2020 ballot measures are mostly do-overs (CalMatters)
Life without shelter during a pandemic (SF Chronicle)
University of California names Dr. Michael Drake as first Black president (SF Chronicle)

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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