Today’s Headlines

8:36 AM PDT on June 22, 2018

Data show that “distracted walking” is not the scourge some make it out to be (Curbed)
How sprawl makes walkable places more expensive (CNU Public Square)
Not enough housing means more traffic, not less (Mercury News)
Public transit ridership is declining in wealthy cities (The Economist)
PG&E, San Joaquin Transit collaborate on electric vehicle pilot program (Business Wire)
Cars don't pay rent, but maybe they oughta (Transportist)
Learning and teaching about Mileage Based User Fees (Transport Topics)
Twenty things a city can do to improve public life (Curbed)
Homelessness: Don't blame big tech—it's all of us (Wired)
What Next Door can teach us about ourselves (Atlantic)

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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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SBCTA Could Finally End One of the Country’s Worst Zombie Projects: The ONT Connector

“The ONT Connector is an inappropriate investment. Ridership capacity and public transportation utility do not support spending billions of dollars for it. Scrapping the project is the right decision. Electric rail to ONT is the appropriate decision,” writes Kevin Dedicatoria, The Transit Coalition, Community Consultant.