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)

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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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