Today’s Headlines

8:22 AM PST on February 7, 2022

San Diego weighs VMT tax (Planetizen)
Transit workers and riders are heroes (Patch)
Invest in transit workers and equity (Transit Center)
BART halts work by engineering firm while it investigates a conflict of interest (LA Times)
Government regulation of autonomous vehicles is hamstrung (Vox)
- That needs to change (Washington Post)
Disneyland's Monorail changed transportation (SF Gate)
No. There's nothing "clean" about nuclear power (San Luis Obispo)
Bay Area suburbs balk against new state housing laws (Mercury News)
Court: Including affordable units can exempt developments from local zoning rules (AP)
Counterprotestors on bicycles block anti-vax truck convoy in Vancouver (Momentum Mag)

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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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