Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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