Today’s Headlines

8:47 AM PST on December 8, 2021

Car crash fatalities surged during the pandemic (LA Times)
GM self-driving taxi company claims its double parking is legal (Reuters)
Alameda looks to address dangerous intersection where Supervisor was killed (ABC7)
Transit as event: BART unwittingly hosts formal yet guerrilla Art Basel pop-up (SF Gate)
Highway 46 is being widened through the center of Lost Hills for "safety" (KGET)
Biden Administration sides with labor, threatening CA transit funding (Railway Age)
Important steps to take for cleaner air (CalMatters)
L.A. approves redistricting maps (LA Times)
State redistricting process is messy - for reasons (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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