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8:32 AM PDT on August 3, 2020

    • San Francisco's Tenderloin to get wider sidewalks (SF Chronicle)
    • Bay Area's MTC working with advocates on a transit recovery/safety plan (TransForm)
    • Eviction ban about to end, and there is reason to worry (Sacramento Bee)
    • Manhattan Beach ran Black families out of town, and now faces a reckoning (LA Times)
    • Imperial County shutdown a model for California? (SF Chronicle)
    • Crowding, not density, helps spread virus, and the cause is rent that is too high (New York Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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