Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:44 AM PDT on October 5, 2015
- Kern County bike and walk projects expect to get funding (Bakersfield Californian)
- Oakland rising (rents, land values, skyline) (Urban Land Institute)
- To kill a complex city (like Oakland?), chase out the poor—and their food (Guardian)
- Higher development fees in LA (Let’s Go LA) and SF (Chronicle) are controversial
- Where we ride 2014: Analysis of bicycle commuting in the U.S. (League of American Bicyclists)
- CA Republicans are still pushing their “Fix CA Roads” plan (Tri County Sentry)
- Measuring the benefits of slowing traffic down (CityLab)
- In Brazil, Sao Paulo mayor builds bike lanes, invests in bus corridors, stirs up a hornet’s nest (NY Times) (Wall Street Journal)
- Harlem man sues UPS for always parking in the damn bike lane (Gothamist)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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