Today’s Headlines
- World leaders at climate summit don't seem to realize that bicycling is an effective carbon reduction technology (Treehugger, Forbes)
- Build Back Better also focuses on electric cars, not bikes (Fast Company)
- Who killed LA streetcars? We did (LA Times)
- Ballot measure filed to raise taxes for transit expansion in San Diego (Mass Transit)
- Updated federal road design manual "enshrines dangerous practices into law" (The Urbanist)
- What is PM2.5 and why is it bad? (SF Chronicle)
- LA leaders are trying to solve homelessness by banning it (LA Times)
- Derailed housing project in SF has the whole state in an uproar (SF Chronicle)
- Bay Area sees growing COVID cases, shifting mask mandates (SF Chronicle)
- Mexico City debates pros, cons of remote work (Slate)
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