Today’s Headlines

8:50 AM PDT on August 2, 2017

Yet another way walking can reward you: with something to smile about (TreeHugger)
Cyclists and stop signs (Bicycle Retailer)
Equity and bike-share (KQED)
SF Market Street to ban private cars—one day (SF Gate)
80 years of false claims that freeways would solve congestion, mapped (CNU)
Equity and Bus Rapid Transit (TheCityFix)
The top 100 highest-spending lobbyists in California (Sacramento Bee)
To solve affordable housing, some local control has got to go (LA Times)
Many UC Berkeley students can barely afford housing (Berkeleyside)
The roots of gentrification, mapped (Next City)
James Rojas: Planning should focus on place, not movement (Curating LA)

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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