Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PDT on August 17, 2018

Richmond city officials decry arrest of black bike advocate Najari Smith (East Bay Express)
A simple pedestrian crossing on Highway 1 is anything but (Half Moon Bay Review)
Sebastopol police launch crosswalk sting operation (Sonoma West)
LA moved to ban rental scooters in March, but they aren't gone (LA Times)
They can't make autonomous cars safe, so they want pedestrians to take responsibility (Bloomberg)
In Atlanta, a lawsuit contends the city can't afford not to fix its sidewalks (CityLab)
Analysis: Most new oil wells approved by Brown administration are in disadvantaged communities (Center for Biological Diversity)
Trump administration has declared war on the environment (Capitol Weekly)

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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