Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PDT on August 15, 2018

As a black man, this is how I walk through my neighborhood (Long Beach Daily Post)
Racial segregation affects where we live and how we get around (CityLab)
San Mateo County begins work on bike/pedestrian plan (SM Daily Journal)
The scooter wars are no joke: Santa Monica gets a taste of what it would be like with NO SCOOTERS (Santa Monica Daily Press)
Recently developed Playa Vista's main street will become a pedestrian plaza (LA Times)
Just stop using Level of Service as a planning metric (Strong Towns)
It's hard out there for a local city councilmember (California Planning & Development Report)
To review: Trump hates California (Independent)
Ontario's move to cancel its cap-and-trade program is already hurting the region (The Record)
Bangladesh protests over traffic deaths of two students bring city to a halt (CityLab)

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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