Today’s Headlines

8:12 AM PST on February 5, 2021

Biden and the NHTSA have a big safety mess to clean up. Thanks, Elon (LA Times)
Set a national clean energy standard ASAP (Gizmodo, Vox)
Buttigieg promises to focus on transportation equity (The Hill)
Analysis: How long will transit relief last? (Transit Center)
The case for federal transit operations funding (Planetizen)
More on head of LA Metro stepping down (LA Times)
Parents question police handling of bike ride-out in Modesto (CBS)
LA, USC launch urban forestry project for east side (USC)
Potential touchdown site for Bay Bridge bike path to be a community garden, for now (SF Examiner)
Large real estate investors are taking over suburban rental market (Bloomberg)

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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