Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:08 AM PDT on May 26, 2021
- Let’s not widen country roads (Governing)
- State DOTs should build housing (CityCommentary)
- Aging in place is a community project (Next City)
- Is a pedestrian warning label on SUVs a good idea? (CityLab)
- Bike Month recap from Bike East Bay, listing some epic wins
- San Jose approves massive Google Village in downtown (Mercury News)
- Berkeley is still working on its plan for a DOT and removing police from traffic duty (Berkeleyside)
- How to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill (Transportation for America)
- E-bike tax credit benefits everyone (Bicycle Retailer)
- More on CARB ruling that Uber and Lyft must go electric (Union of Concerned Scientists)
- Personnel change at high-speed rail authority gives Vartabedian an opportunity to disparage the project (LA Times)
- The fight over free fares on Muni (Mass Transit)
- What happens when you can’t pay a fare with cash? (NextCity)
- A lot of people stay in jobs they hate because of insurance (Route Fifty)
- People who spent the pandemic in vans (The Guardian)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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