Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PDT on November 1, 2021

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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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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