Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PDT on October 28, 2021

Pedestrian safety doesn't have to be a nightmare (Bloomberg)
Misleading ads from oil companies on the rise (Heated)
Highway proponents push to widen Highway 41 "because HSR is stalled" (SJV Sun)
Breakdown of earmarks for Southern California parks, infrastructure, transit requested by Senator Feinstein
LA moves to shift to clean energy (Washington Post)
CA Atty General Bonta leads coalition supporting more stringent fuel efficiency standards (Gold Rush Cam)
LA looks for ways to build affordable housing in "high-resource" neighborhoods (Daily News)
Rental, housing prices rising after fires, floods, leaving people stranded, struggling (NBC News)
The conventional "wisdom" about rent control is not all that wise (Governing)
Chino says: No more warehouses (Daily Bulletin)
SF Supes reject housing that would replace a parking lot (SF Gate)

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Melanie Curry

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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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