Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PST on February 9, 2022

Disturbing allegations of a back-room deal between San Jose mayor and CA Transportation Commissioner Carl Guardino (in his role as a business owner) (San Jose Spotlight)
USPS truck designer ensured they were just heavy enough to skirt emissions rules (Vice)
LA City Council wants to ban bike repairs on the street (LA Times)
California High Speed Rail Authority releases draft 2022 business plan (CAHSRA)
San Diego bike coalition launches real-time crash tracking app (Times of San Diego)
San Diego failed to get it together to apply for homeless housing funds (Voice of San Diego)
Tenant protection bill (Ellis Act adjustments) has failed despite support (CalMatters)
Using lasers to encourage crows to move along is a bad idea (Mercury News)

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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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