Today’s Headlines

8:43 AM PST on February 28, 2018

Pedestrian injuries and deaths keep rising (LA Times)
CA housing bill gets some amendments (Medium)
Automated vehicles can't save cities (NY Times)
Mapping income disparities in cities (CityLab)
Vallejo gets a new pedestrian crossing (Times Herald)
Davis is about to get bike-share (Davis Enterprise)
Sacramento rail-to-trail clears a hurdle (Sacramento Bee)
Scooters—a solution to gridlock? asks L.A. Times Op-Ed
People think they're good at multitasking, but nobody is good at driving while texting (Science Daily)
Oregon is considering expanding bike tax to include kid's bikes (Statesman Journal)
More than 100 cities around the world rely mostly on renewable energy (Guardian)

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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