Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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)
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