Today’s Headlines

7:51 AM PDT on June 16, 2021

Lyft launches pilot EV rental program for its drivers in SF Bay Area (Reuters)
Biden administration reboots CAHSR funding (Bond Buyer)
Clean renewables standard faces politics in D.C. (Inside Climate News)
Making California forests more resilient (Bloomberg)
Are labor unions really holding up affordable housing construction? (CalMatters)
People say they "won't go back to how it used to be" as they hop in their cars (LA Times)
What will happen when eviction moratorium ends? (CalMatters)

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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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“The ONT Connector is an inappropriate investment. Ridership capacity and public transportation utility do not support spending billions of dollars for it. Scrapping the project is the right decision. Electric rail to ONT is the appropriate decision,” writes Kevin Dedicatoria, The Transit Coalition, Community Consultant.