Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:58 AM PDT on August 5, 2015
- Critics: San Diego’s bike-share system set up for tourists, competes with existing bike rentals, instead of serving residents (San Diego Union Tribune)
- LA Metro creates Office of Extraordinary Innovation (The Source)
- Central Valley Air quality has best July in 20 years (Fresno Bee)
- Department of road widenings:
- Tokyo has pretty much eliminated traffic deaths with compact development, transit, bike lanes (Tech Insider)
- Stop bashing bike racks for LEED certification, again (TreeHugger)
- Whose job is it to make cities smarter? (The Guardian)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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