Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PDT on November 2, 2021

Santa Clara VTA considers using eminent domain for BART station site (Mercury News)
Public transportation can save the world, if we let it (The Verge)
Hundreds of traffic stops last year ended with cops killing unarmed people (NY Times)
In housing, what's old is new again (Granola Shotgun)
Podcast: California's top housing officials on housing affordability, accountability (CalMatters)
USDOT, CA launch new supply chain infrastructure program (Engineering News-Record)
Paris: The City of Bikes (Grist)
The weird and glorious celebration that is Bike Kill (Gothamist)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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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