Today’s Headlines

• 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