Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PDT on October 14, 2021

Mountain View to permanently open its main street to pedestrians (Mercury News)
City of Sacramento pays millions after car driver hits two people (Sacramento Bee)
Lower speed limits could be coming (LAist)
Ports of LA and Long Beach will operate 24-7 to clear out that backlog (LA Times)
Legislators cast doubts on high speed part of high-speed rail (AP)
- And pundits amplify the doubts (CalMatters)
- Meanwhile, in Italy, high-speed rail replaces plane trips (CNN)
CalEPA releases update of CalEnviroScreen
LA is planting small forests (LA Times)
Thought experiment show climate solutions "hiding in plain sight" (Fast Company)

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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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