• Counties strike deal on Caltrain ballot measure (Green Caltrain, KQED, SF Chronicle)
• Sausalito thinks about affordable housing on the waterfront (SF Chronicle)
• Costa Mesa gets a grant to reimagine a busy corridor (LA Times)
• Driving reductions during COVID are not reducing GHGs much (UC Riverside)
• UK bans SUV ads – SUVs are a major contributor to rising emissions (Guardian)
• Podcast: What it’s like to be a Black planner in California (CP&DR)
• Firefighters are responding to emergencies by bike in this Massachusetts town (Firehouse)
• High speed rail’s true barrier is space, not money (Governing)

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• Rent is coming due, and time is running out to help (SF Chronicle)
• Transit systems brace for cuts; warnings from last recession (CityLab)
• SacRT gets some money for light rail improvements (Progressive Railroading)
• More on wider sidewalks in the Tenderloin (SF Examiner)
• Young people are really struggling, and very motivated to vote (Daily Democrat)
• Lobbyists object to allowing legislators to vote on bills remotely (Sacramento Observer)
• UC is increasing its police budgets (CalMatters)
• State policies make a big difference in residents’ life expectancy (LA Times)
• SoCalGas sues California because it won’t promote natural gas as a “clean fuel” (LA Times)
• California could use an action plan for that other crisis – climate change (SF Chronicle)
• The Census is tricky this time (LA Times)

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• San Francisco’s Tenderloin to get wider sidewalks (SF Chronicle)
• Bay Area’s MTC working with advocates on a transit recovery/safety plan (TransForm)
• Eviction ban about to end, and there is reason to worry (Sacramento Bee)
• Manhattan Beach ran Black families out of town, and now faces a reckoning (LA Times)
• Imperial County shutdown a model for California? (SF Chronicle)
• Crowding, not density, helps spread virus, and the cause is rent that is too high (New York Times)

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• California hits new milestone in COVID deaths (LA Times)
• Social distancing is easier for people with higher incomes (UC Davis)
• New charges – bribery and money laundering – against LA Councilmember Huizar
• SF Mayor asks city workers to hold off on promised raises (SF Chronicle)
• Reflections on environmental and racial justice (NRDC)
• Caltrans is using old bottles to pave a highway in Butte County (Ukiah Daily Journal)
• Lower cap-and-trade revenue leads to cuts in clean-air programs (CalMatters)
• LA accelerates efforts to electrify transportation system (Scientific American)
• Metrolink set to expand in Riverside County (Patch)
• Affordable housing construction is lagging (CityLab)
• Making the post-COVID commute equitable (World Economic Forum)

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