Today’s Headlines

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)

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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