Today’s Headlines

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)

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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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