Today’s Headlines

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

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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