Today’s Headlines

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More on fixing California's outdated jaywalking law (LAist)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

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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