Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PST on February 17, 2021

How Biden's environmental justice order might work (Scientific American)
Ridership may not be the right metric for transit (CityLab)
National political games around a carbon tax (Politico)
Cap-and-trade to be "evaluated" in CARB's upcoming scoping plan process (Capital Public Radio)
CA bill considers permanent online access to government meetings (Governing)
Grocers claim pay raises for its employees would force it to shut some stores - despite big profits during pandemic (LA Eater)
How Ciclovía changed Bogotá (VeloNews)

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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