Today’s Headlines

9:37 AM PDT on August 27, 2015

Cap-and-trade is not for road repair (LA Times)
The Texas Transportation Institute is still measuring mobility all wrong (Planetizen)
- Here's a roundup of articles pointing out how its congestion study is missing the mark (City Observatory)
- Although it does point out that California's drivers are the most stressed (Contra Costa Times)
Sacramento set to build much more housing downtown (Sacramento Bee)
Benicia transit hub breaks ground (Times Herald)
No, Uber doesn't reduce congestion, and it doesn't help air quality, either (Tech Crunch)
In Buenos Aires, a focus on making the city safe and pleasurable for pedestrians, bikes (Globe and Mail)

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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