Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PDT on August 18, 2020

The politics of the bike shortage (NY Times)
Lots of people are still riding transit (Bloomberg)
Transit cuts are felt deepest in low-income areas (NY Times)
Five car companies sign on to California emission standards - but not General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, or Toyota (CalMatters)
Be afraid of climate change - and act accordingly (Heated)
Life as a truck driver during a pandemic (Las Cruces Sun News)
Money from Volkswagen fraud settlement will build electric trucks (Transport Topics)
Congressmembers demand answers about DMV sale of personal information (Sacramento Observer)

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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