Today’s Headlines

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

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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