Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PST on December 21, 2020

Relief bill offers little help (CityLab)
Hospitals brace for the worst (LA Times)
COVID rages through L.A. supermarket staffs (LA Times)
People are still traveling for the holidays (AP)
"Essential workers" are trapped (New Republic)
Farmworkers have a hard time quarantining (CalMatters)
Pandemic spurs job growth in Inland Empire warehousing industry (Press-Enterprise)
Cars have become much safer, but only for people inside them. Finally, a car company begins to address that (Fast Company)
Japanese traffic jam traps people for days (CNN)
The bike boom is real, and can be sustained (The Verge)
2020 was the hottest year on record (CapRadio)

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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