Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:03 AM PST on March 3, 2016
- An urgent call for better bikeways already (Berkeleyside)
- Alliance for Biking and Walking releases 2016 benchmarking report (Bicycle Retailer)
- Please stop saying humans aren’t causing climate change (Wired)
- Is public transit supposed to reduce congestion? (City Metric)
- Maybe people are just making fewer trips: causes of transit ridership declines (LA Times)
- Walker: Cars and cities are a bad match (Washington Post)
- Southern California air quality district wants to gut its own mission (Curbed)
- Affordable housing minimums will be on San Francisco ballot (SFGate)
- Why are long time residents leaving Oakland–and driving farther? (SF Gate)
- We’re measuring housing affordability all wrong (City Observatory)
- Can Jerry Brown guide transportation tax increase through the legislature? (San Jose Mercury News)
- To encourage walkable neighborhoods, fix mortgage rules (Grist)
- User hyperloop to move goods, not people (Gizmodo)
- Rail can change cities and lives (SFGate)
- Uber expands its carpool option (San Jose Mercury News)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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