Today’s Headlines

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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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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