Today’s Headlines

8:23 AM PDT on October 21, 2021

How reduced parking requirements can increase housing (AARP)
California rail authorities join forces in CIRCLE: California Rail Corridors Linking Everyone (Trains)
Parents push for safer routes to school in Montclair (Daily Bulletin)
California has a huge racial profiling problem (Daily Beast)
The people who harvest our food suffer from lack of COVID resources, information (KVPR)
Cargo backlog creates traffic tie-ups on the highways and in neighborhoods (Press Democrat)
- But that's just masking an economic success story! (Bloomberg)
California's wildfire smoke is causing health problems in the eastern US (Washington Post)
LA City Council votes to solve homelessness by banning it (LA Times)
Singapore implements problematic rules on bicycle behavior in the name of "safety" (Straits Times)

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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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