Today’s Headlines

8:17 AM PDT on August 19, 2021

The climate gap in the Eastern Coachella Valley is extreme (ProPublica)
Electric vehicles won't save us - but electric bicycles could (Propmodo)
Santa Monica plans a (temporary) car-free Main Street (City of Santa Monica)
A 3-D printed bike lane designed to hang under bridges? (Fast Company)
California farmworkers face extreme health risks from heat, fires - with little regulatory protection (Sacrament Bee)
It's a vague and confusing funding landscape for CA high speed rail (LA Times)
Self-driving cars are still a long, long way off (Jalopnik)
Did losing the commute make people more productive? (Chicago Booth Review)
MIT weighs in on Great Highway debate: Opening it back up to cars is a mistake (SF Examiner)
Feds plan to enforce higher fines on automakers who miss fuel efficiency targets (Reuters)

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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