Today’s Headlines

8:44 AM PDT on April 17, 2018

How do scooter and bike-share companies make a profit? (San Diego Union Tribune)
Environmental justice—in the room but still on the margins (ClimateWire)
Union City about to vote on diverting funds for a new road (Mercury News)
San Francisco fights e-scooters (SF Gate)
Uber begins to share (some of) its data with cities (Wired)
California's battle over one-size-fits-all zoning (Next City)
Everyone has a plan for the LA River, including the county (Curbed)
LA is out of reach for young people (LA Times)
Americans in general are driving less—except for young, underpaid people (State Smart Transportation Initiative)
Housing bill creates an odd coalition (Sacramento Bee)

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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