Today’s Headlines

• California shaping a plan to make ebikes affordable for low-income people (LA Times)
• Self driving cars could greatly increase emissions (Dezeen)
• Decades of highway construction and community destruction (AARP)
• It's Infrastructure Decade: Now the work begins (Brookings)
• Buttigieg on Vision Zero (Fast Company)
• Work from home is an opportunity to shift transit planning from its focus on commutes (Forbes)
• Money money money:
  • CA grants for transit (Railway Age)
  • Federal grants for transit, too (Ro Khanna)
  • Federal grants for Safe Streets (Senator Feinstein)
• San Francisco will develop a homeless response team in place of police (SF Chronicle)
• Refineries regularly dump toxic chemicals into San Francisco Bay (SF Examiner)
• Oil companies post record profits (Politico, Washington Post)
• Stunningly high natural gas bills (Bloomberg) might drop soon (LAist)
• Cities all over California miss a deadline to update their housing elements - giving up funding and local control (Mercury News, SF Chronicle)
• HCD rejected Berkeley's proposed housing element as inadequate (Daily Californian)
• Costco to build housing with its mega stores? (Eat This, Not That!)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF