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By Melanie Curry

8:44 AM PDT on October 1, 2020

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

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