Today’s Headlines

8:29 AM PST on February 9, 2018

Half Moon Bay readies a bicycle plan (Half Moon Bay Review)
MTC puts out a survey to get feedback on how it gets feedback (Patch)
Factoring freight into complete streets plans (Planetizen)
CPUC lowers fees on Lyft and Uber despite charges that safety enforcement is underfunded and spending is secret (SF Examiner)
How is dockless bike-share changing cities? (The City Fix)
Next City examines California's “radical” proposal to upzone almost everywhere
Chevron response to California climate change lawsuit: Everybody was doing it! (LA Times)
U.S. census in danger of being sabotaged and politicized (CityLab)
Security “expert” raises alarms about potential dangers of share bikes—but neglects to notice the same goes for cars, only more so (News.com.au)
Scott Pruitt, head of EPA, says maybe climate change ain't such a bad thing (Chicago Tribune)

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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