Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PDT on September 16, 2020

Environment California offers five urgent solutions to the climate crisis (CalMatters)
Project to separate freight and passenger rail at Stockton lands another $20m grant (Mass Transit, Escalon Times)
Being a Black planner in California (CP&DR)
Lessons from pedestrian malls of the past (Fast Company)
Black essential workers tell their pandemic stories (Elemental)
Health effects of breathing smoke (National Geographic)

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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