Today’s Headlines

8:23 AM PDT on August 3, 2018

Uber, Lyft agree to new tax in SF (SF Weekly)
Berkeley is blocking bike-share competition (Berkeleyside)
Why LeBron is giving every student at his new school a bike (Bicycling)
What everyone else can do in the face of federal resistance to clean transportation (Council on Foreign Relations)
How Trump's proposed rules would affect California—if they survive in court (CalMatters)
Prefab apartment building for UC Berkeley students goes up in four days (Berkeleyside)

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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