Today’s Headlines

8:50 AM PST on January 16, 2018

Super smart use of bike-share: Racking up miles in food delivery job (Chicago Reader)
Bikes will eat cars (Tree Hugger)
Is cap-and-trade too successful? (LA Times)
Mud-covered Highway 101 to remain closed indefinitely (San Luis Obispo.com)
One gas tax repeal effort misses signature deadline; another one is very much alive (Sacramento Bee)
Palo Alto seeks feedback on Grand Boulevard Initiative (Palo Alto Online)
New Disney ride, getting raves, is a bus (OC Register)
Go on, California, blow up your zoning laws (Boston Globe)
Feds end approval for flashing pedestrian safety lights because of patent (Orlando Sentinel)
Legos tell the story of bad communication from the Florida DOT (Tampa Bay Times)
Public is nervous about driverless cars (Gov Tech)

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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