Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PST on March 12, 2021

Feds have been letting polluters - like Exide - off the hook (LA Times)
Public transit workers added to list of people eligible for vaccines beginning Monday (Mercury News)
- List includes people with disabilities, underlying health conditions (LA Times)
Why are car companies selling e-bikes? (Inside Hook)
GHGs return to pre-pandemic levels (Voice of America)
Study: Americans have been leaving home even more than before the pandemic (Washington Post)
Adaptive cruise control encourages speeding, leads to crashes (The Hill)
Electric cars are coming, but they're going to take a while (NY Times)
Something different - neither owning nor renting - is needed (The Atlantic)
Bash some trash this weekend, wherever you are (Patch)
Watch Caltrans rock-climbing crews knock down boulders and blow them up (YouTube)

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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