Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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)
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