Today’s Headlines

8:38 AM PDT on April 16, 2018

After hit-and-runs, L.A. riders are shaken, plead for safer streets (Curbed)
City audit: San Diego police not giving out many tickets to drivers for violating pedestrian safety (San Diego Union Tribune)
SF Supervisors to consider an e-scooter ordinance (Hoodline)
BART plans another sea of parking around a new Livermore station (Systemic Failure)
Tesla no longer official party to crash investigation after blog post that aimed to absolve the company (Patch)
Dispute over money in SB 1 repeal campaign (LA Times)
High-speed rail to be audited by feds (Capital Public Radio)
The '”fight club” of biking? (CityLab)
Whatever we do, we cannot spend so much money on a –gasp-- bike path! But car lanes—that's different (Marin Independent Journal)
Feds consider “bailing out” failing coal and nuclear industries (Environmental Defense Fund)
Advocates say state regulators are not doing enough to reduce emissions (Medium)

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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