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8:33 AM PST on February 25, 2021

    • Berkeley moves to get police out of traffic enforcement (Berkeleyside, SF Chronicle, NY Times)
    • New USPS truck design should be imitated (Curbed)
    • More on federal bill to create e-bikes incentives (The Verge)
    • Santa Cruz transit officials want vaccine priority for their drivers (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
    • Richmond wants to open a homeless RV site at mostly-empty Hilltop Mall (SF Chronicle)
    • Tiger Woods, driving too fast on a steep, curvy road, had a serious crash; Locals call for safety improvements (LA Times)
    • More on Berkeley's ending single-family zoning (Sierra Club, Mercury News)
    • Mapping Black history puts racism on the map (Next City)
    • The strange and troubled history of pedestrian malls (Governing)
    • Report: Poorly timed red lights delay drivers (But why use timing to speed cars when it could, say, make biking safer?) (Smart Cities Dive)
    • Outcry over CA DA Association's misspending state funds meant for prosecuting environmental violations (The Appeal)

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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