Today’s Headlines

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

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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