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8:51 AM PDT on October 19, 2020

    • Eliminate jaywalking laws - they don't make people safer, and they create other problems (CityLab)
    • A call to replace Assembly Transportation Committee chair: Asm Jim Frazier is an oil industry shill who blocks clean energy progress (CalMatters)
    • Santa Monica amends its Bike Action Plan to add more protected bike lanes (Santa Monica Daily Press)
    • Another reason to oppose Prop 22: It would weaken sexual harassment laws (YouTube)
    • Residents fight plans to install fences along coastal railroad tracks (LA Times)
    • Rediscover the joys of walking (The Guardian)
    • Police traffic stops and the killing of black men (LA Times)
    • Cruise plans to begin testing fully driverless cars in San Francisco soon (The Verge)
    • California's history with slavery and the push for reparations (SF Chronicle)
    • Suburbs are changing (NY Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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