Today’s Headlines

8:47 AM PST on November 15, 2017

Why fines for “distracted pedestrians” are a dumb idea (Globe and Mail)
Pedestrianizing is good; humanizing is better (CityMetric)
Sacramento is making itself more bike-friendly (Sacramento City Express)
Competition, pressure from feds and other states are driving CA DMV's driverless vehicle regulations (GovTech)
Natural gas industry is panicking and fear mongering in California (Clean Technica)
Senate tax plan would even eliminate the commuter cycling benefit (Bicycling)
Sea level rise is already affecting California coast (Capitol Weekly)
So Cal smog is getting worse (LA Times)
Using Google Streetview to map people (Places Journal)
How bike-share makes money on data (Sydney Morning Herald)
The costs of housing costs (Capitol Weekly)
YIMBYs are having an effect on housing policies (Mercury News)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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