Today’s Headlines

8:38 AM PDT on April 22, 2022

Reduce fossil fuel use, full stop (IPCC)
Overconsumption of everything is a huge problem (Popular Science)
Feds have $6.4 billion available for bike/ped, clean energy vehicle projects (Reuters)
Richmond to launch electric shuttle service (East Bay Times)
Just keep wearing masks on transit (LA Times, Lookout Santa Cruz, Bloomberg)
A way to price freeways without burdening low-income people (UCLA)
Caltrans District 8 (Inland Empire) seeks input on its bike and ped plan (Victorville Daily Press)
Petaluma is too dangerous to walk to school (Petaluma 360)
CA relying on the public to help enforce housing laws (CalMatters)

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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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