Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PDT on July 29, 2020

If we don't take care of essential workers, we won't kick this virus (LA Times)
Climate change worsens environmental injustice (Guardian)
The fight over a ballot measure to save Caltrain continues (SF Chronicle)
How each county Bay Area county is enforcing health rules (SF Chronicle)
Office rents will drop, but maybe not apartment rents (LA Times)
A fatal hit-and-run, an arrest; Public Works director's response is to recommend not walking there (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Grants from LCTOP awarded for transit projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (SVC News)
OCTA will give masks to riders who need them (Patch)
Cities and counties are tracking e-bikes and e-scooters to manage them, not you (CalMatters)
Tear down the freeways (Pew)
California says: double check your voter status now

More California headlines at Streetsblog LAStreetsblog 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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