Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:23 AM PDT on September 21, 2020
- It’s Bike Week! Pick at least one day (with decent air quality) to ride (Ventura County Star)
- This is the moment to reimagine public transportation (NRDC)
- The growing pedestrian safety crisis (US Today)
- Berkeley police use grant to cite drivers for violating pedestrian right of way (Berkeleyside)
- Bikes belong on State Street (Santa Barbara Independent)
- Sonoma County tries again with a transportation sales tax (mostly for roads) (Press Democrat)
- Santa Barbara County finally replaces LOS measure with VMT (Santa Barbara Independent)
- A small portion of federal BUILD grants will to go to transit, rail (Mass Transit)
- Census workers aren’t done, but work is being curtailed (SF Chronicle)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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