Today’s Headlines

7:57 AM PDT on April 26, 2021

CA bills on automated speed enforcement slow down (LA Times)
COVID's impacts on cycling (Taylor&Francis)
Pandemic could end car dependence, if we choose (The Conversation)
San Diego needs bikeways (Times of San Diego)
First, commit to climate goals (Daily Californian)
Tactics have evolved, but the fight against necessary climate policy goes on (The Hill)
USDOT allows CA to set emission standards again (Governing)
Newsom takes up a ban on fracking (NPR)
No malarkey: CA high-speed rail needs Amtrak Joe (Bakersfield.com)
San Diego's "Grand Central Station" moves forward (Mass Transit)
San Francisco accelerates plans for carbon neutrality (Governing)
Explaining environmental racism: Ten examples (Yes!)
The purposefulness of aimless walking (Dawn)
No such thing as a "low-skill" worker - the label devalues people and their work (Route Fifty)

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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