Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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