Today’s Headlines

8:05 AM PDT on March 29, 2017

An easy way to fight traffic and boost transit: reward commuters who don't drive—by enforcing the law (LA Times)
- And maybe copy companies in D.C. that offer bike-share as a perk (Washington Post)
Report: Bicycling creates jobs, cuts health-care costs in Minnesota (Star Tribune)
What California needs to hit housing and climate goals: denser housing, less driving (LA Times) (Mercury News)
States set climate priorities in face of Trump effort to derail policies (LA Times)
Researchers confirm: Waze is making traffic worse (SFist)
In search of the smartest city (CityLab)
Raising gas tax is necessary, but it is not a permanent solution to financing transportation (Governing)

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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