Today’s Headlines

8:37 AM PDT on July 21, 2020

Transit has a key role in fighting racism (Bloomberg)
The 15-minute city is having a moment (TreeHugger)
Google updates its bike map information, a bit (Grist)
Who benefits from Slow Streets? (NY Times)
Oakland and Berkeley move towards reducing police budgets (SF Chronicle)
Berkeley approves plan to halve police budget, reduce cop's role in traffic enforcement (SF Chronicle)
How police could promote trust (San Diego Union Tribune)
NY plans a "transportation library" using some of those ebikes that Uber was getting rid of (Buffalo News)
Draft Plan Bay Area 2050 released (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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