Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PDT on August 12, 2020

Evictions are happening, despite "moratorium" (CalMatters)
Again, court rules that Uber, Lyft drivers are employees (Transport Topics)
- Judge loses patience with Uber, Lyft "nonsense" (LA Times)
Legislative Analyst's Office warning: Coastal cities, prepare for sea level rise now (Capitol Weekly)
Vehicle traffic rebounding; transit ridership, not so much (Progressive Railroading)
San Diego's new perspective on transit (Mass Transit)
95-year-old "Bicycle Bob" hits 100,000 miles on his bike (KSBY)
Scenes from Oakland's first day of online school (Oaklandside)
Lafayette again postpones a decision on housing development (SF Chronicle)
Farmworkers worry about retaliation for talking about COVID concerns (Modesto Bee)
Simon Cowell crash raises concerns about e-bike safety, but that was no e-bike, sir (TreeHugger)

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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