Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
9:00 AM PDT on August 11, 2017
- Santa Cruz to get dockless bike-share; Salinas should too—also trains (The Californian)
- More on fixing California’s outdated jaywalking law (LAist)
- Report: Dockless bike-share systems are attracting investments because data mining (Bike Biz)
- A recap of the Silicon Valley Bike Summit (SVBC)
- Unclear on the concept, Marin balks at longer hours for carpool lanes, because “congestion” (Marin Independent Journal)
- Congestion report doesn’t tell us much about congestion (City Observatory)
- …and in that report “safety” means fender-benders that get in the way of traffic (City Observatory)
- Drivers “outsmart” L.A.’s “smart boot”–that is, cheat and lie to avoid fines (NBC)
- Caltrans is already modifying highways to accommodate self-driving cars (San Francisco Business Times)
- A look at the pros and cons of back-in angle parking (MikeOnTraffic)
- Will other states join California’s climate pact? (The Atlantic)
- How Prop 13 feeds the housing crisis (Berkeleyside)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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