Today’s Headlines

8:41 AM PST on November 20, 2017

Planners could do a lot more to make cities safe and healthy (Next City)
Apple gives $1.8 million to Cupertino for bike lanes (Mercury News)
L.A. is walkable (SCPR)
BART proof-of-payment rule is harmful and unnecessary (Bay City Beacon)
Adding lanes does not reduce congestion (Houston Chronicle)
Why New York's subway system is failing (NY Times)
Cartoon: The perfect pedestrian, making the world safe for motocracy (Treehugger)
California's emission reductions are due to renewable energy, not cap-and-trade (PV Magazine)
The once and future Democratic consensus on climate change (Vox)
One thousand bikes in a tunnel: whose fault? (OC Register)
Memorial bike ride in Sunland (Daily News)

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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