Today’s Headlines

• As of today, the "Idaho Stop" is now legal in Washington state (bicycle riders can treat stop signs as yield signs) (KREM)
• Among bills signed by California Governor Newsom:
  • Some (weak) police accountability rules (SF Chronicle)
    • Because, and despite, numerous studies showing racial inequities in policing, like this one (LA Times)
    • and this one (Mercury News)
  • Going forward, CA companies must hire a wider range of people on their boards (SF Chronicle)
  • California task force to study reparations (LA Times)
• Most vehicles in U.S. need to be electric, and transit needs to be a lot better (Scientific American)
• Electric vehicles likely to become California's top manufacturing export (Forbes)
• Here's a fully autonomous, electric street sweeper (Smart Cities World)
• L.A. still studying congestion pricing (Transport Topics)
• Ten lessons  to learn from the pandemic about urban mobility (Eltis)
• Emissions should be tracked more broadly (GreenBiz)
• Homeless and elderly: Welcome to the new reality (NY Times)
• Santa Maria looks for feedback on its Active Transportation Plan (Santa Maria Times)
• Federal appeals court denies Trump's attempt to end census early, over objections from Trump-appointed judge (SF Chronicle)
• People are still using cops as mediators: LAPD is fielding calls about landlord-renter disputes (Crosstown)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF