Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

By Melanie Curry

8:38 AM PST on November 22, 2017

Happy Thanksgiving, all. Streetsblog California will be back on Monday.

Study: Bicycle riders are better drivers (Cycling Magazine)
Electric bikes provide all the benefits of good exercise (Science Nordic)
Oil industry spent more on California lobbying in first half of 2017 than all of 2016 (Elk Grove News)
- ….and that lobbying made cap-and-trade a “toothless” regulation that has no effect on emissions (East Bay Express)
Meanwhile the latest cap-and-trade auction results show a strong, stable market (Environmental Defense Fund)
- It sold out (The Star) at a record price (ClimateWire), raising more than $800 million (LA Times)
Cities along San Pablo Avenue corridor in East Bay seek input on development plans (East Bay Times)
More on SF’s “Rapid Response Team” (NextCity)
Uber hid a massive data breach for over a year (SF Gate)
Riverside ponders a new transportation sales tax (Press Enterprise)
Driverless cars won’t save the world, says Richard Florida (CityLab)
Silver Spring, Maryland gets a bike-share-powered holiday tree (CityLab)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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