Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PST on February 3, 2021

New (old) bicycle bills in Congress (Smart Cities Dive)
Buttigieg confirmed as Transportation Secretary (Politico)
Dear Secretary Pete: Nine projects for you to consider (Curbed)
Vehicle mile tax - road charge - whatever you call it, the USDOT is now taking the idea seriously (Bloomberg)
Automakers drop fight against CA emission standards (NY Times)
Legal shenanigans around national emissions regulations (JD Supra)
Press releases alone won't clean up vehicles (Union of Concerned Scientists)
California's fight for the environment is entering a new era (KQED)
Democrats not giving up on climate fight (E&E News)
Adapting UC Davis' VMT calculator to Portland's proposed freeway expansions (CityCommentary)
Daily Bulletin grades every city and county in CA on meeting their housing permit goals
Here's a different way to think about public housing: give renters a stake (Better Institutions)

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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