Today’s Headlines

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)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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