Today’s Headlines

8:54 AM PDT on September 25, 2018

Dueling campaigns: Gas tax opponents (LA Times)
- ...vs Prop 6 opponents (LA Times)
Gas tax repeal effort and political mileage (Bloomberg)
“Modernization” of Clipper card—Bay Area's all-in-one transit card—falls short (Curbed)
Improving bus stops can increase ridership (Route Fifty)
It's not the scooters, it's the badly designed streets (Greater Greater Washington)
San Jose to introduce bond referendum for affordable housing (NextCity)
Meanwhile, voters in Switzerland approve addition of “promoting bicycle infrastructure” to country's constitution (SwissInfo)
Official-looking signs in Norway encourage silly walks (Good News Network)

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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