Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PST on January 6, 2022

Add e-bikes to municipal fleets (Route Fifty)
San Francisco considers permanently closing Lake Street to through traffic (SF Examiner)
Electric bus numbers are growing - there are now 3500 of them in the entire US (Kilgore News Herald)
Volvo plans to get its "unsupervised" auto driving feature approved in CA (The Verge)
Not all infrastructure spending is from government (Quartz)
Pandemic "moratorium" failed to prevent lots of evictions in the Central Valley (Fresno Bee)
Hundreds of city employees in SF are under quarantine (SF Chronicle)
Census recounts challenged by the pandemic (Pew)
Microbusinesses flourished during the pandemic (Brookings)
And so did sprawl (Bloomberg)

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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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