Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PST on November 4, 2015

Grieving mom says unsafe street design killed her son on S.F. bike ride (KQED)
Reporter thinks the unfinished bike path on the Bay Bridge “frustrates” cyclists (SF Chronicle)
Airbnb, Proposition F, and the shared hypocrisy of Bay Area housing (Tech Crunch)
A bitter housing debate, an election, and still the same housing mess in S.F. (Washington Post)
More on how much oil companies spent in Sacramento lobbying against petroleum reduction targets (LA Times)
A different take on “Vision Zero” (Planetizen)
Use of walking, biking, and transit growing compared to driving alone (Transportationist)
Design streets for lower speeds—don't just slap on a speed limit (CityLab)
In Chicago, too, bicycle riders aren't just privileged urbanites (Chicago Magazine)
The complex effects of cities on local temperature (Next City)
Historical photos show that Amsterdam wasn't always a biking paradise (Fast Company)

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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SBCTA Could Finally End One of the Country’s Worst Zombie Projects: The ONT Connector

“The ONT Connector is an inappropriate investment. Ridership capacity and public transportation utility do not support spending billions of dollars for it. Scrapping the project is the right decision. Electric rail to ONT is the appropriate decision,” writes Kevin Dedicatoria, The Transit Coalition, Community Consultant.