Today’s Headlines

8:17 AM PDT on September 3, 2020

A bike violation? A black man is dead (CityLab)
League of American Bicyclists statement on killing of Dijon Kizzee
CA Democrats gave up on new oil and gas regulations (Sirota)
The threats to California from a rushed, incomplete census are serious (LA Times, ABC)
COVID and structural problems in America's housing market (CityMetric)
Why low-income residents might oppose development (Shelterforce)
In North Oakland, residents watch gentrification happening in front of them (Oaklandside)
This company is turning vacant hotels into affordable housing (Fast Company)
Actually, mayors have little control over problems Republicans have walked away from (NY Times)

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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