Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PDT on August 24, 2020

Connecting Vision Zero and anti-racism (Bike Portland)
Racism has shaped public transit, and it's deeply embedded (Rice University)
Trump: "I'll never ride a bike" (Forbes)
The "We Can't Give Up Cars" Sierra Club creates a "model policy" for adopting electric vehicles (Clean Technica)
Will drivers be willing to give up some on-street parking after COVID is over? (PEW)
New York is eyeing California’s Uber policies (NY Daily News)
California considers keeping gas-fired power plants open after blackouts (LA Times)
Internet access is really bad in a lot of places (Route Fifty)

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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