Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PST on February 29, 2016

Happy Leap Day!

Over the weekend, lots of bike stuff to gawk at in California—at the Electric Bike Expo in San Diego (San Diego Union Tribune)
- and at the North American Handmade Bike Show in Sacramento (Bicycle Retailer)
High-end bikes as a signing bonus: an irresponsible use of investor funds? (Record Net)
Making sense of transit data (LA Times)
Caltrans proposes roundabouts to slow traffic in Ventura County (Ventura County Star)
Americans spend 30 billion hours a year commuting, and it's killing them—not to mention everyone else (Grist)
Technology alone can't fix transportation: How fully automated self-driving cars could be worse for the environment (Vox)
L.A. is using infrastructure planning as a blueprint for sustainable development (Cities Today)
Does being car-free reduce pollution? Evidence from São Paulo (The City Fix)

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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