Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PDT on August 13, 2020

Cars could be safer for pedestrians, but nobody wants that (Bloomberg)
Study: How e-bikes can significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions (TreeHugger)
How to increase bicycling: Lessons from Bogota (YouTube)
How sustainable freight transportation can help keep pollution down (World Economic Forum)
Uber and Lyft threaten shut down in California until after November, when they hope to overturn A.B. 5 (LA Times)
Kamala Harris' record on racial justice and the environment (Mother Jones)
Oakland teens have some ideas for improving distance learning (Oaklandside)

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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