Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PDT on August 21, 2018

Proposed bikeway would connect Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Redwood City (Patch)
Current parking lot at North Berkeley Bart station should be developed as a car-free zone (Berkeleyside)
Trump's tariffs on e-bikes won't help American industry (Electrek)
Will scooters push out dockless bikes? (San Diego Union Tribune)
Analyzing bike-share data: sometimes the shortest trip is not the best one (State Smart Transportation Initiative)
The modern automobile must die (The New Republic)
Freight trucks at SoCal ports are “near zero emission” (Clean Technica)
Porterville is halfway to all-electric transit goal (NGT News)
State gas tax funding allocated to several SoCal highway projects (SCV News)
- and bridges, new pavement near Redding (Action News Now)
When is a gas station not a gas station? (LA Times)

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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