Today’s Headlines

8:39 AM PST on January 13, 2021

Bakersfield says it has ended chronic homelessness (Fast Company)
- COVID job losses will increase LA's homeless population (LA Times)
Greater Sacramento region stay-at-home order lifted (but wear a mask) (Sacramento Bee)
- ...while LA County braces for another surge on top of this one (LA Times)
Uber, Lyft drivers sue to overturn Prop 22 (Transport Topics, Sacramento Bee)
Temporary closures planned at Richmond BART station (Local News Matters)
How downtowns could rebound and thrive (Route Fifty)
Why bike-share works really well, sometimes (BBC)
USDOT releases autonomous vehicle guidance (Planetizen)
AARP releases handbook for building better neighborhoods

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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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