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8:13 AM PDT on June 22, 2021

    • Traffic deaths rose during pandemic shutdowns - especially among Black people (CNN)
    • Support for bill requiring AVs to be ZEVs (Renewable Energy Magazine)
    • Bakersfield City Council argues over whether to allow e-bikes on Kern River Parkway (Turnto23)
    • Caltrans looks for feedback on Richmond-San Rafael bridge bike path (Local News Matters)
    • Richmond gets an all-electric bike-share system (The Bay Link)
    • Large affordable homes project proposed near future San Jose BART station (Mercury News)
    • South Pasadena wants control of the land Caltrans was going to use for a 710 extension (Pasadena Now)
    • Training new bus drivers in Fresno (School Transportation News)
    • Southern cities invest in transit and highways that don't meet people's needs (Bloomberg)
    • The U.S. is increasingly segregated (Time)

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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