Today’s Headlines

8:50 AM PDT on August 25, 2015

Cities “outperform” suburbs in terms of housing value (Fitch)
- ....and in San Francisco, that means more gentrification and displacement (UPI)
The problem with regional governance: Sacramento's regional plan did little to convince local cities not to develop on their fringes (Phys.Org)
Uber begins testing transit-style discounted routes (Tech Crunch)
All kinds of reasons why New York's mayor would be wrong to open Times Square to car traffic (CityMetric) (CityLab)
Enough with the bikes vs. cars: it's about better cities (Planetizen)

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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