Today’s Headlines
- Lime extends equity program to its entire nationwide vehicle fleet (Smart Cities Dive)
- Busy Berkeley street to get flashing pedestrian signal—one day, soon. People are already complaining because “confusion” (Berkeleyside)
- Bike Champions: An inexpensive way for companies to encourage more bike commuting (Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition)
- Surprise! Scientists find that drivers just plain old aren't looking for bikes (CityLab)
- How Fresno won $70 million to clean up its air (Next City)
- Gas tax opponents claim it's not necessary, an argument based on solidly wishful thinking (CalMatters)
- Where the gas tax goes (CalMatters)
- San Diego Trolley cuts crime by sending security to ride train, issue tickets for fare evasion (San Diego Union Tribune)
- SF's new transbay transit center is not your average bus stop (CityLab)
- We were warned: a still-relevant 1973 essay on how cars change the very fabric of our lives (Uneven Earth)
- Electric buses good, but don't neglect expansion, improvement of transit (Energy at Haas)
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