Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:00 AM PDT on May 11, 2021
- Bicycles saved my life: Rich City Rides’ Najari Smith (Christian Science Monitor)
- Peatónito, Mexico City’s pedestrian superhero, is about to graduate from UCLA (Curbed)
- Mr. Roadshow explains the proposed safety stop law (Mercury News)
- Marin considers putting pipeline back on bridge – but now there’s a bike lane there (Systemic Failure)
- Securing an equitable, clean transportation future (NRDC)
- Electrifying transportation would lower GHGs, save money, and create jobs (CalMatters)
- “I wasn’t distracted” – Ohio senator models less-than-ideal Zoom behavior (NY Times)
- There’s federal money for housing homeless people, but few are taking it (Grist)
- Newsom proposes a big stimulus package (CalMatters)
- Dark side of carbon credits: Huge profits for a nonprofit (Technology Review)
- Barriers to achieving US climate goals are more political than technical (Brookings)
- It really is infrastructure week (The Verge, Washington Post)
- Is California law on police use of force making any difference? (CalMatters)
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