Today's Headlines

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By Melanie Curry

8:48 AM PDT on July 28, 2020

The Black experience of cycling is more than civil rights and tragedy (Bicycling)
Even before electrification, Caltrain is reducing GHGs (Progressive Railroading)
Stockton Mayor Tubbs is learning, and teaching, a lot about Universal Basic Income (Smart Cities Dive)
British docs to begin prescribing bike riding, so bike supply has to be worked out (BBC)
Urban planning is a tool for white supremacy (The Conversation)
Politico says telecommuting will kill the city
- But maybe it will “expand opportunity” (Bloomberg)
The rich are buying houses while the poor – and not so poor – are facing eviction (Washington Post)
How we talk about housing – a commodity? a basic right? – matters (ShelterForce)
How Google is spending its promised $1 billion for housing (Fast Company)
Another Sacramento bus driver tests positive (Sacramento Bee)
COVID and transit (Government Technology)
Will COVID change the course of urbanism? (Planetizen)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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