Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
9:13 AM PDT on October 13, 2015
- Horrific: partially blind driver gets a misdemeanor for a hit-and-run killing (Systemic Failure)
- Responding to bike improvement skeptics (Planetizen)
- More on bill to reform parking minimums in affordable housing (see yesterday’s Streetsblog coverage) (CirculateSD)
- S.F. buildings are getting more energy efficient (Urban Land Institute)
- Someone finally quantified San Diego’s smart-growth failure (Voice of San Diego)
- Alley infill: a new trend in housing? (Sacramento Business Journal)
- Two publications ponder the efficacy of bike helmet laws (Guardian) (Wall Street Journal)
- LA Metro CEO says transit agencies need to care about gentrification (LA Times)
- Unapologetic gentrifiers in Philadelphia are politically active–about minor issues (PhillyMag)
- The peril of hipster economics (Al Jazeera)
- Salt Lake City wants to build housing in road medians (Gizmodo)
- Are big college towns the key to the American dream? (Daily Beast)
- Why are London cyclists so white, male, and middle class? (Guardian)
- Study finds racial bias of drivers at crosswalks (University of Arizona News)
- Five cities that are testing driverless public buses (Gizmodo)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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