Today’s Headlines

8:15 AM PDT on June 2, 2021

COVID broke transit; can it be remade better? (Politico)
Free transit won't solve everything (Slate)
Oil industry claims jobs are more important than clean air and racial justice (SF Chronicle)
Bring back San Francisco's Great Bicycle Adventure (SF Chronicle)
CA plans "massive scale-up" of EV charging infrastructure (Newsweek)
Well, anyway, Pope Francis has ordered an electric Popemobile (Tech Crunch)
Amtrak has a 15-year vision (Railway Age)
Freeways without futures (Congress for New Urbanism)
- So tear them down; but then what? (Vice)
The carbon footprint of tap water (Treehugger)

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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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