Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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
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