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8:48 AM PST on February 23, 2021

    • Huge benefits to everyone if we made it safe for more people walk, bike, e-bike, and scoot (Planetizen)
    • Payments for low-income residents approved, to be signed today by Gov Newsom (SF Chronicle)
    • Housing policy on California's legislative agenda (Terner Center)
    • Capitol Corridor train plans schedule changes for spring, but not yet back to pre-pandemic service
    • Report: Why California's electricity prices are high (SF Chronicle)
    • CA law requires diversity on corporate boards, but new hires are still mostly white (SF Chronicle)
    • Affluent people are grabbing up L.A.'s vaccine access codes meant for low-income and people of color (LA Times)
    • Berkeley to consider sweeping police reforms (and eliminating single family zoning) (SF Chronicle)
    • UC Berkeley survey finds Inland Empire residents favor requiring masks, no inside dining to fight COVID (Daily Bulletin)
    • What happens when corporations play a role in developing street map apps (CityLab)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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