Today’s Headlines

• Jaywalking laws were created to serve car drivers. Time for a reset (Governing)
• Pedestrian deaths are 25% of all CA traffic fatalities, and almost a quarter of those are hit-and-runs (KCRA)
• Public input on public projects needs to be rethought (The Atlantic)
• What bike lanes taught me about racism (Melanin Basecamp)
• Rhode Island offers e-bike incentives (Washington Post)
• All-in on electric cars (EDF)
• Crowded sprawl: LA is, and has always been, hard on the poor (LA Times)
• “Builder’s remedy” could make more cities allow more housing (San Diego Union Tribune)
• Google begins demolition work for San Jose village (Mercury News)
• Antioch passes renter protections (East Bay Times)
• Supply chain issues deplete inventory of new Clipper cards for Bay Area transit fares (Mass Transit, Bay Link)
• Inland Empire cities push back on warehouse growth (NY Times)
  • ….which is formidable (Business Insider)
• Biden administration schedules first offshore wind auction (CNN)
• Wind in the forecast: power could be cut to prevent wildfires (Bloomberg)
• Bike gondolas! (Why?) No, wait, personal urban transport gondolas (Why?) (Fast Company)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF