Today’s Headlines

• 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