Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PDT on May 6, 2021

Subsidized driving and the burden of climate change (Frontier Group)
Let's throw away some of these rules of the road (Bloomberg)
Proponents push to widen rural Highway 41 in Fresno county to solve bad driving (KMPH)
People are walking in cities more since the pandemic (Yes!)
Reining in pollution from the warehouse industry (LA Times)
San Francisco is conservative when it comes to local matters (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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