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8:00 AM PDT on May 17, 2021

    • We need a holistic traffic model that includes all our goals (The Urbanist)
    • Newsom proposes huge budget (Bloomberg)
      • Including money for high-speed rail (KTLA)
    • Why do American planners like California's parking minimums? (Slate)
    • Minneapolis eliminates parking requirements (Star Tribune)
    • Uber, Lyft drivers get pay cuts under Prop 22 (Guardian)
    • Definition of "equity" is elusive (Eno Center for Transportation)
    • Madrid argues over its low emission, car-free zone (Cities Today)
    • LA's fight against homelessness is "quixotic" (LA Times)
    • Homeless people in Oakland build a refuge (Guardian)
    • California has very little data on water use - not good in a drought (SF Chronicle)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

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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