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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

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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