Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:58 AM PDT on November 1, 2016
- L.A.’s traffic battle plan: Rail, ride-hail, bicycles, cars, dense development (LA Times)
- Anti-transit lawyer tries to claim Warriors’ Draymond Green broke the law with an ad that encourages people to ride BART (SF Chronicle)
- CA’s climate change policies created 500,000 jobs (Triple Pundit)
- Where are the climate activists on transportation? (Negwegon Communications)
- Study tells us what many people already know: Uber, Lyft drivers are racist, sexist (The Atlantic)
- Maybe not “shorter commutes”—but local tax initiatives could bring more transportation options (NY Times)
- “Fancy women on bikes” show up to defy intimidation on streets of Turkey (NY Times)
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