Today’s Headlines

8:19 AM PST on January 15, 2021

California has plenty of money right now but only because of a staggering wealth gap (CalMatters)
Podcast: High-speed rail, saving public transit, ZEVs (Capital Public Radio)
Hey, industry: There are already plenty of Black bicyclists, you're just ignoring them (VeloNews)
San Leandro plans a major road diet (Mercury News)
Making community engagement more accessible and inclusive (Route Fifty)
USDOT rules on autonomous vehicles would allow some of them to bypass crash standards (Reuters)
Fuel economy of cars and light trucks is decreasing, not improving (Green Car Congress)
Should oil companies be worried about some of their employees? (Heated)
Monterey Bay power plant is now an electric battery powerhouse (SF Chronicle)
We need housing for people, not cars (Planetizen)
Berkeley could ban sales of gas vehicles by 2027 (SFist)
CA Asm Kevin McCarthy, who supported efforts to overturn election, faces a dilemma (Bakersfield.com)

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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