Today’s Headlines

8:16 AM PDT on September 8, 2020

Neighborhoods that were redlined tend to have more pavement, fewer trees, and higher temperatures than better-off areas (National Geographic)
California built its highways for speed, so no surprise: drivers are speeding (CBS)
Sunnyvale wants a connected, safe bike network, too (Mercury News)
L.A. should build housing on its underused commercial corridors served by transit (CityWatch)
SCAG formally adopts long-range plan "Connect SoCal" (Patch)
Stanford report: Sea level rise is going to muck with car commutes (AJOT)
SMART to acquire, run freight operations (Marin Independent Journal)
Riding a bike while black remains dangerous (Mother Jones)
Californians are capable of conserving power when they need to - like under threat of a blackout (SF Chronicle)
LA Times' Vartabedian sounds the death knell for high-speed rail, again
California's current eviction protections, explained (CalMatters)

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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