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Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PDT on October 17, 2018

    • 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)

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