Today’s Headlines
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8:40 AM PST on March 11, 2021
- California to get $26 billion from federal COVID relief bill (LA Times)
- Which could cut child poverty in half – because poverty is a policy choice (CalMatters)
- Bill includes $30b in transit relief (Transportation for America)
- A dream of nationwide high-speed rail (Vox)
- Lacking safe streets, what’s protecting pedestrians now is congestion (Curbed)
- Brief hailstorm causes problems on I-5 (Modesto Bee)
- CA proposal to invest in ZEV infrastructure is a smart move (Union of Concerned Scientists)
- Sonoma Clean Power launches e-bike incentive program (Sonoma West)
- Crazy-seeming Dutch street design works, and is a work in progress (Dutch News)
- The missing large housing our cities need (Alfred Twu)
- Retrofitting parking garages to solve housing shortage (Route-Fifty)
- Oklahoma bill would give drivers immunity for running down protestors (Oklahoman)
- UC, Cal State police departments are much less diverse than student bodies (CalMatters)
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