Today’s Headlines

8:43 AM PST on December 2, 2020

Transit needs money, now (Newsweek)
The nightmare is here: San Bernardino parses out responses to 911 calls (Daily Bulletin)
- ICUs are filling up (CalMatters, Sacramento Bee)
- Ambulance industry "at a breaking point" (NBC)
- Latino communities have been hit especially hard by COVID (LA Times)
Steps toward solving affordable housing (CalMatters)
Early test for Biden: Vehicle emission rules (E&E News)
Cars are expensive and underused, but the value of having access to one is high, and rising (MIT)
Biden administration needs to rein in Tesla's dangerous, haphazard experiments with AV tech (Slate)
Portland's 20 mph signs have reduced top speeds (Bike Portland)

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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