Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PDT on July 26, 2018

Electric scooters and bikes “have promise” as transportation options (Morning Consult)
- E-scooter use is growing at “unprecedented” pace (Curbed)
- And . . . cities respond: by banning them--Beverly Hills is the latest (LA Times)
Jump bikes can't keep up with demand in Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
Here's an app that awards miles for every mode—if you let it follow you everywhere (The Verge)
San Diego passes an “aggressive” bike pedestrian plan without timeline or funding (San Diego Union Tribune)
Manteca pursues Active Transportation Program grants (Manteca Bulletin)
La Mesa begins construction on pedestrian/bike safety projects (San Diego Union Tribune)
PPIC poll: Californians' top concern is the environment
What a smart tax on ride-hail would entail (CityLab)
Believe it or not, Americans spend less time traveling now than they did in the '90s (SSTI)

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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