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8:37 AM PDT on August 31, 2020

    • Closing in on a new bill on COVID eviction protections (CalMatters, KQED)
    • Pandemic is hurting transit and its riders (CalMatters)
    • Napa and Sonoma look forward to wider highways, hoping congestion will disappear (Napa Valley Register)
    • How to buy an e-cargo bike (Outside)
    • Fremont to build ten miles of bike lanes (Mercury News)
    • Uber and Lyft could comply with California law, but they plan to fight it (MarketWatch)
    • California has been taking dramatic steps towards cleaning up emissions from trucks (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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