Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:24 AM PDT on August 17, 2021
- Federal government opens investigation into Tesla autopilot system (NY Times, NPR)
- Bikes and buses should be the norm (Inside Climate News)
- National City plans to turn a freeway underpass into a pedestrian plaza (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Raleigh to make ebikes for couriers, deliveries (Financial Times)
- Things that hold back climate policy (SP Global)
- Climate change + pollution make each other – and their health impacts – worse (Grist)
- Oh – and smoky air makes us more vulnerable to COVID, too (Grist)
- Too much data? (Technology Review)
- World Naked Bike Ride = nearly naked people riding bikes in Chicago (TimeOut)
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