Today's Headlines

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More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

By Melanie Curry

8:06 AM PST on November 17, 2020

Possible statewide curfews? (Sacramento Bee)
Wear a mask (CDPH)
Las Vegas HSR’s failure to sell bonds frees up $ for other uses – housing? (City Lab)
Influential LA Times continues to let its writer declare CA high-speed rail dead (It isn’t)
BART might cut staff by up to 40% (SF Chronicle)
Interview with an L.A. bike shop owner who has seen pretty good business lately (Sierra Club)
Gilroy’s First Street is all fixed now (Gilroy Dispatch)
California plans to continue widening freeways “for freight” (My News LA, Daily Bulletin)
Texas reveals a plan to widen a freeway to 20 (!) lanes (Austin Towers)
Greenwashing from highway builders (City Observatory)
Smart concrete (Lake County News)
Electric vehicles get rebates. Ebikes should too (US PIRG)
Sacramento County ponders declaring racism a public health crisis (Sacramento Bee)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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