Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PST on December 17, 2021

Manhattan Beach decides parklets are too popular, and - unlike drivers - are dangerous and increase traffic (AP News)
Transportation has become political (Governing)
Fatal crashes persisted even as traffic declined (SF Chronicle)
Colorado approves rule requiring climate impact of transportation projects to be measured, mitigated (Colorado Public Radio)
Federal memo to states: Please use transportation money to fix what you already have before building new roads (Wired)
CA set to get almost $5B from federal highway bill (Daily Republic)
When the economy, logistics, color, and COVID collide (Black Voice News)
San Jose looks to implement state law allowing denser housing (Patch)
Efficiency isn't efficient enough; we have to think about what is sufficient (TreeHugger)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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Melanie Curry

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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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