Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PDT on October 25, 2018

No, electric cars are not enough to save us. We must drive less. (Curbed)
California's cigarette taxes and smoking bans have saved $$$$ and lives (Could we apply similar tactics to transportation?) (CALmatters)
Travel surveys should ask about all modes to get accurate data (Forbes)
It's okay not to wear a bike helmet (Bicycling)
Chevron agrees to pay a fine, clean up its act a little bit (San Francisco Chronicle)
Rhode Island Waves: DOT tells peds to wave at drivers if they want to cross the street (Coventry Courier)
Riverside County plans a brand-new freeway (Press Enterprise)
What happens when affordability requirements expire? (NextCity)
Suspicious package sent to Maxine Waters (LA Times)
- others make San Diego Union Tribune evacuate its offices
One more in a string of suspicious fires at housing construction sites in the East Bay (SF Chronicle)

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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