Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PDT on August 26, 2020

Lesson from Lafayette: "sue the suburbs" on housing until they give up (East Bay Times)
Why is the legislature spending time targeting bike and scooter share? (LA Daily News)
Bikes and the changing global economy (NPR)
Airlines are returning to SFO (SF Gate)
Sacramento transit leaders reject light rail line (Mass Transit)
New street breaks ground in Petaluma (Petaluma 360)
Connecting racial justice with transportation modeling (Human Transit)
Black homeowners face discrimination in appraisals (NY Times)
Oakand makes plan to "clear" homeless encampment (Medium)
The US Post Office also supplies environmental benefits (Inverse)
The corporate chaos behind Republicans' silence on climate change (New Republic)
Latest cap-and-trade auction is doing fine, thanks (EDF)

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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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