Today’s Headlines

8:44 AM PDT on August 7, 2018

Cars are running people over. So why are cops targeting pedestrians? (LA Times)
It's time for transportation planners to address racial equity (Alta Planning)
Imperial County is developing electronic fare payments for transit (Calexico Chronicle)
San Francisco residents are fighting bike-share expansion (SF Examiner)
Rail policy organizations inexplicably honor rabid anti-rail activist Congressman Jeff Denham for “leadership” (Railway Age)
City leaders fight federal efficiency rollback, but they should be building streets to encourage less driving (Curbed)
The LeBron James bicycle interview (Wall Street Journal)

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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