Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:31 AM PDT on August 16, 2018
- Turns out, people really like scooters (Mobility Lab)
- Bird’s plan to pay for bike lanes: good or just good PR? (Fast Company)
- When bike-share fails, they should leave the bikes behind (The Stranger)
- Pomona hopes to get $10m for bike, pedestrian improvements (Daily Bulletin)
- Why drivers should support bike lanes (Strong Towns)
- Q: What decreases pollution? A: Environmental regulations (Daily Californian)
- Study: The bad condition of California roads is costing drivers a lot of money (NBC)
- NBC investigation finds “hundreds” of bridges in need of repair–which Caltrans has been saying for a while (NBC)
- BART station parking lots could be used for housing (SF Chronicle)
- Climate gentrification is a thing (Federal Reserve Bank)
- California plans to kill the diesel bus (Energy Wire)
- State of Washington has a carbon tax on the ballot (The Atlantic)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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