Today’s Headlines

8:31 AM PST on February 16, 2022

There are no accidents (Bloomberg)
Traffic deaths in San Jose are rising (SF Chronicle)
Transit leaders reflect on pandemic changes (Smart Cities Dive)
Biden restores California's authority to set emission standards (NY Times)
Cap-and-trade: Polluting industries have saved up too many emission credits (LA Times)
A lesson from a town that almost solved homelessness: focus on health (Politico)
A ballot initiative seeks to overturn California zoning reforms (Planetizen)
Neighbors fought a housing development, so now they can have an Amazon warehouse (SF Chronicle)

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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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