Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:26 AM PDT on October 22, 2020
- Cities and counties consider transit funding measures (Governing)
- Maybe carless households are moving to pedestrian-hostile places (Planetizen)
- Santa Barbara city council approves e-bike share on State Street (Santa Barbara Independent)
- Are shared vehicles shared equitably? (Jennifer Dill)
- Tesla testing “self-driving” vehicles, piecemeal, experimenting on Tesla owners (Washington Post)
- Berkeley tries a utility tax to help fight climate change (Fast Company)
- Livermore, Bakersfield among winners of American Public Transportation Association awards (Mass Transit)
- What the pandemic is teaching us about the economy (NPR)
- Activists gather to prevent homeless evictions in West Oakland (Medium)
- Prioritize small businesses in recovery (Bloomberg)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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