Today’s Headlines

8:04 AM PST on November 12, 2020

Here's a new toolkit for expanding bike networks (Bicycle Retailer)
Suisun City seeks feedback on bike/pedestrian trail (Times Herald)
Finally, red bus-only lanes on San Francisco's Van Ness (but not ready to use yet) (SFist)
Contra Costa County forging ahead with plans for autonomous vehicle infrastructure (Engineering News-Record)
Driver gets 16 years for hitting, killing bicyclist (Daily Bulletin, NBC)
Not all green space is created equal - nor accessible (TheCityFix)
Our survival is inextricably linked with great tits (Heated)
It's time to declare racism a public health issue (Urban Institute)
How government and private investment decimated a Black main street (ProPublica)
Prop 15 is dead, leaving a hard choice: raise taxes or cut services (CalMatters)
COVID is much more prevalent in Orange County's minority communities (CalMatters)
A conversation with San Diego's new mayor Todd Gloria (NY Times)
Facebook is a problem for democracy (SF Chronicle)
Why are New Yorkers buying cars? They should know better (Planetizen)

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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