Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PST on December 9, 2021

Note to store owners: Not all holiday shoppers drive (Bloomberg)
UT Editorial Board calls SANDAG regional plan "pie in the sky" (San Diego Union Tribune)
Piedmont safe streets plan recommended for adoption (East Bay Times)
Santa Maria transit to see service improvements (Santa Maria Times)
Restaurant industry opposes San Diego plan to ban new drive-through restaurants near transit (Mass Transit)
Cold weather brings bad air to Bay Area as people fire up their fireplaces (Berkeleyside)
Emeryville is one of the few cities surpassing housing goals (SF Chronicle)
CARB considers changes to Low Carbon Fuel Standards (LCFS) program (National Law Review)
Google says it will build housing on top of future BART station in San Jose (Mercury News)
Biden administration targets roads built to divide communities (E&E)

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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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