Today’s Headlines
- Five million are dead from COVID (LA Times)
- Jaywalking laws criminalize walking (Daily Breeze)
- Seniors struggle to cross the street (NBC Palm Springs)
- SANDAG approves per-mile road usage tax - as a concept (Patch)
- Proposed widening of I-205, connecting I-580 to I-5: comments due soon (Independent News)
- The latest back-and-forth on e-bikes in the Build Back Better plan (The Verge)
- And transit and high-speed rail (Bloomberg)
- California looks for ways to force local governments to build more housing (CalMatters)
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