Today’s Headlines

8:31 AM PST on January 4, 2021

Cars, COVID, and California (Planetizen)
Coronavirus did not halt highway widening in 2020 (Press Enterprise)
Assemblymember Laura Friedman's statement on being named Transportation Committee Chair (Los Feliz Ledger)
Sausalito intersection to get a dedicated bike lane (Marin Independent Journal)
Santa Cruz residents sought for county transportation committees (Patch)
DMV approves using autonomous vehicles for deliveries (Business Insider)
Biden's climate team is a big deal (Curbed)
Post-pandemic cities can permanently reclaim public spaces (The Conversation)
New CA law allows convictions to be expunged from driver records - including DUIs (Systemic Failure)
Sacramento region was California's growth spot in 2020 (Sacramento Bee)

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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