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Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PDT on August 28, 2020

    • Scooter ridership was booming before the pandemic (Bloomberg)
    • Metro awards contracts to design San Fernando Valley Sepulveda transit corridor (Los Angeles Daily News)
    • San Francisco taking a serious look at congestion pricing (SF Examiner)
    • How Oakland is helping small businesses (Next City)
    • A feminist city works better for everyone (KQED)
    • Taking away parking space is crucial for walkability (Kinder Rice Institute)
    • Taking personal responsibility for your carbon footprint (TreeHugger)
    • California Air Resources Board passes new emission requirements for ports, shipping industry (CalMatters)
    • Acknowledging and removing racism from disaster recovery (Kinder Rice Institute)
    • Thousands expected at commemorative March on Washington today (LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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