Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:19 AM PDT on August 29, 2017
- The life cycle of a Burning Man bike (KQED)
- Plans for a bicycle track along Pasadena’s Union Street are moving ahead (Pasadena Now)
- San Diego’s Bike the Bay hosts 3,400 bikes of all stripes (San Diego Union Tribune)
- New green bike lanes go in near Sacramento State University (KCRA)
- NY Times is gaga over dockless bike-share
- and so is Seattle (Planetizen)
- Instead of barriers for safety, trees: they fulfill many other needs as well (Dezeen)
- Bay Area transit connections are really dumb (Sacramento Bee)
- More on newly opened SMART train (GovTech)
- Disagreements about proposed Bay Area bridge toll hike and what money should be used for (Mercury News)
- There was already a war against pedestrians in town where victims were charged for not wearing reflective clothing (Systemic Failure)
- Hurricane Harvey should not have come as a surprise—we’ve been talking about climate change for a long time (Politico)
- Trump DOT nixes “hire local” policy (Next City)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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