Today’s Headlines

8:20 AM PDT on October 25, 2017

Congressional auditor urges action on climate change (New York Times)
It doesn't matter if cities are climate-proof if no one can afford to live in them (The Nation)
We need to be planning now for more, bigger floods (Mother Jones)
Your daily commute costs a lot (Inverse)
LA expects on-demand to be the future of transit (Wired)
Electrify city buses already (Vox)
Stanford proposes off-campus bikeway improvements
After fire, counties consider new and emergency housing policies (Press Democrat)
San Francisco ponders tax ballot measures, including fees on Uber, Lyft (SF Examiner)
UPS is testing cargo bikes for deliveries in Toronto (The Star)

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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