Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PST on November 2, 2020

Regulate cars, not pedestrians (Next City)
L.A.'s Union station bus plaza gets a reboot (NBC)
In Lithuania, a popular program lets people trade in old cars for ebikes (Electrek)
Stanford researchers link 30,000 cases and 700 COVID deaths to Trump rallies (SF Chronicle)
How the election could impact the waste industry - and climate (Waste Dive)
Economics' role in environmental regulations (Energy at Haas)
Different ways to make a cap-and-trade system work (Power Technology)
Anti-anti-car forces use equity to attack California's climate policies (Forbes)
Real estate investors are starting to consider climate vulnerabilities (CityLab)
Rent prices still dropping in Bay Area (SF Chronicle)
9.9 million Americans are behind on their rent or mortgage (CNN)
Plan for a car-free neighborhood in Phoenix (NY Times)
- People in Salt Lake City want something like that (Salt Lake City Tribune)
- A guide to building density people want (The American Conservative)
Global shipping regulator's "climate plan" would increase emissions (Transport and Environment)

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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