Today’s Headlines
- A long-term solution for e-scooter shares (The Atlantic)
- Report finds that half of the congestion in SF is from Uber, Lyft (SF Examiner) (Tech Crunch)
- (Boing Boing)
- SF Chronicle looks for “people behaving badly” as scooters are reintroduced to SF
- “Lane squeeze”–er, road diet, sidewalk improvements–proposed on SF’s 6th Street, where pedestrians are hit often (SF Chronicle)
- Accusations fly about coordination on campaign for gas tax (Mercury News)
- Projects in Tahoe area that will not be completed if Prop 6 passes (South Lake Tahoe Now)
- Evidence from Portland: Building a city where residents don’t have to drive so much saves money, builds economy (City Observatory)
- The housing crisis in Oakland: too little, too late? (UC Berkeley)
- New York’s empty storefronts could be a warning for others (CityLab)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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