Today’s Headlines

8:21 AM PDT on March 22, 2021

How COVID has affected Santa Barbara's State Street (Edhat)
With third batch of federal aid, L.A. Metro now says it will restore service cuts.... by September (LAist)
- [In January, Metro Board ordered service restoration by July, but staff balked]
Driver seriously injures bike rider; city claims lack of money prevents safer street design (Berkeleyside)
Buttigieg says Biden plan will usher in a new transportation era (Transport Topics)
New York's proposal for congestion pricing being watched by cities around the country (Politico)
Tesla's "full self-driving" beta is anything but - and it's dangerous (Road and Track)
Podcast: A look at the supply-chain "meltdown" in Southern California (Supply Chain Brain)
Shifting freight flow patterns will affect trucking, rail as ports strain to keep up with U.S. demand for consumer goods (Freight Waves)
Rising seas, bigger fires are endangering CA parks (Jefferson Public Radio)
Developer proposes converting Marin County mall into housing (SF Chronicle)

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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