Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PDT on May 12, 2021

Where car-free streets boosted business (CityLab)
Car supremacy and America's traffic paradox (The Week)
End red tape for red bus lanes (TransitCenter)
Oklahoma signs its version of stop-as-yield law (KFOR)
Waymo, Cruise want to run autonomous taxis, deliveries in SF (Reuters)
Autonomous vehicles sound great, but they're not all that (Jalopnik)
Los Angeles to experiment with free fares on public transit (The American Prospect)
Monterey-Salinas Transit to adopt contactless fare payment (Pymnts.com)
European carbon prices are high enough to drive down the use of coal (E&E News)
CA fires made people homeless, but Chico keeps harassing them (The Intercept)
Newsom proposes funds for homeless (CalMatters)
How Bakersfield ended homelessness (Next City)

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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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