Today’s Headlines

8:31 AM PDT on March 23, 2021

The power of bike education (Yes!)
Biden team prepares $3T stimulus bill (NY Times)
California agencies could reap windfall from Biden infrastructure plan (LA Times)
Buttigieg: We should be designing for people, not cars (Forbes)
CA senators urge Biden to set a date to end sales of gas-powered vehicles (Detroit News, Law360)
Analyze outcomes of transportation funding, not just how much there is (Transportation for America)
California ramping up highway widening projects: In Sacramento, it's Highway 50 (Sacramento Bee)
L.A.'s transit advocates' hard work is paying off (Transit Center)
San Jose connects parking policy with climate (Greenbelt)
Diverging diamond dystopia (CNU)
Are California oil companies complying with the law? Who knows? (Desert Sun)
Oil companies begin their annual meetings, reluctantly pretending to care about the environment (Union of Concerned Scientists)

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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