Today’s Headlines

8:05 AM PDT on September 14, 2016

Principles for including bicycles in a future of self-driving vehicles (Planetizen)
Redesigning crosswalks to make cities safer (Curbed)
Walkable neighborhoods make for skinny citizens (Treehugger)
Our transportation system is wasteful overkill (NY Times)
Governor Brown to sign equity, cap-and-trade expenditure bills in Fresno today (Business Journal)
New Urban Agenda final draft released (Citiscope)
Startling revelation: Hipsters and artists are the gentrifying foot soldiers of capitalism (Guardian)
Median incomes for city dwellers are on the rise (Next City)
- But as cities get richer, rural areas are left behind (Vox)

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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