Today’s Headlines

8:12 AM PDT on July 20, 2018

Cars divide America (CityLab)
L.A. is the deadliest cities for cyclists—and people are trying to change that (Outside Online)
Bike advocacy's blind spot (CityLab) (Streetsblog Chicago)
Naked bike commuter hits the freeway (Mercury News)
When traffic is dense, people prefer to take bike-share rather than Uber, finds Uber (BikeBiz)
BART's Berryessa station will have an insane amount of parking (Systemic Failure)
How California can make cap-and-trade more equitable (Grist)
West Sacramento gets AARP grant for “quick action” project (Sacramento Bee)
Clean energy technologies are no longer a novelty (GreenTechMedia)
Transition to electric vehicles is increasingly dependent on one possibly precarious company—Tesla (Forbes)
The kids know what's at stake: Young people are speaking up about climate change (Teen Vogue)
Bill Fulton on how to fix Prop 13 (Planning Report)

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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