Today’s Headlines
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8:16 AM PDT on August 31, 2021
- National forests in CA will stay closed for two more weeks due to fire risk – no Labor Day hiking, biking, camping (Sacramento Bee)
- How transit funding got traded away in the infrastructure package (Eno Center for Transportation)
- Coalition lobbies to restore transit funding (The Hill)
- Keep that mask on while riding transit (California News Times)
- Transportation leaders in SF, LA say: Speeders should not set speed limits – pass A.B. 43! (CalMatters)
- Iterating to safety (Strong Towns)
- More on housing density bills (Marketplace, SF Chronicle)
- Pew Research finds Americans want bigger houses, longer drives (MSNBC)
- And it looks like a political preference (Motherboard)
- Census data has been released, and 2020 will be a year with a lot of asterisks (StatChat)
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