Today’s Headlines
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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)
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