Today’s Headlines

8:44 AM PST on February 2, 2022

Scraper Bikes! (NBC)
An interesting - but unsuccessful - attempt to gather data on quality of jobs, not just numbers (Capital and Main)
Oakland will lower some speed limits (Oaklandside)
Rail line in southeast LA approved (Mass Transit)
SANDAG gets money for rail projects (Mass Transit)
California is planning clean energy transmission upgrades (CalMatters)
Newsom announces grants for homeless housing in LA, Sacramento (Office of the Governor)
Here's how to build affordable housing (SF Chronicle)
Land trust buys affordable housing in SF (Next City)
Higher gas prices might be helping curb sprawl (Anthropocene)
Suburban sprawl costs everyone (CNBC)
Where flood risk in the US is rising - and who is most at risk (The Conversation)
Alameda's waterfront is being developed (SF Chronicle)
How Modesto hopes to use a Clean California grant (Modesto Bee)
Open Mobility rolls out standards for collecting data on curb space (Smart Cities Dive)

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Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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