Today’s Headlines

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

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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