Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
9:09 AM PDT on August 16, 2016
- Improve the Orange Line, don’t change it to rail (LA Times)
- Merchants refuse to believe data that says their customers walk, bike, and take transit (SF Examiner)
- It happens. You know those cops on bikes at the RNC? Now they’re hooked (Next City)
- Today’s cap-and-trade auction is making people nervous (LA Times) (and here)
- While some are optimistic (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
- Mexico to launch cap-and-trade pilot program (Reuters)
- Obama’s weekly address takes on climate change (YouTube)
- US DOT congestion management strategies are stuck in the 1950s (The Hill)
- Uber and Lyft work with cities to replace public buses (Skift)
- Four recent Streetfilms from Copenhagen (Streetfilms)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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