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
With Salt Lake City’s median-housing plans:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–wTY6clDo–/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1471180811143207749.png
…very recently completed protected intersection:
http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/x_large/nprshared/201510/444789447.jpg
…recent years of lightrail expansions:
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/trax-slc.jpg
…and even Utah’s recent bipartisan gas-tax hike (now tied to inflation) for transpo funding:
http://t4america.org/2015/08/13/utahs-bipartisan-move-to-increase-state-and-local-transportation-funding-will-help-meet-the-demands-of-high-population-growth/
…perhaps one day SF can hope to be as progressive as SLC!