Today’s Headlines

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)

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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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