Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PST on January 20, 2022

California Bicycle Coalition rates the best -and worst - 2021 bikey things (CalBike)
Autonomous, electric freight rail cars? Okay! (IEEE, Future Car)
State plans to connect SMART to Capitol Corridor in Suisun City (Mass Transit)
Vaccine mandates at transit agencies work (Mass Transit)
Bakersfield GET bus will reduce service due to COVID (Turn to 23)
Westlake Village, already a "walker's paradise," will do even more for people on foot (The Acorn)
LA just ended its free-transit experiment (Curbed)
San Diego's new trolley line cost a lot (San Diego Union Tribune)
New preserve intends to "rewild" this Tehachapi area (CalMatters)
The people we call essential workers are seeing aid and support dry up (CalMatters)
Spain looks ahead to how to live with COVID over the long term (AP News)
No one's keeping track of evictions (The American Prospect)

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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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