Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
9:00 AM PDT on October 19, 2018
- Scooters highlight a transportation crisis (Motherboard)
- Goleta goes ahead with Bicycle Pedestrian Master Plan (Noozhawk)
- Drivers wildly overestimate what “semiautonomous vehicles” can do (Wired)
- Oslo uses the “greedy method” to make small immediate changes to help clean air (Deseret News)
- SF judge throws out charges against homeless people for camping (SF Chronicle)
- SF is finding that enforcing its law against sitting or lying on the sidewalk doesn’t work (SF Gate)
- Venice people with houses are angry that there are homeless people near them (LA Times)
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