Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PST on November 20, 2018

Uber drops e-bikes in San Diego (San Diego Union Tribune)
Tiny vehicles and the new safety in numbers (Medium)
Autonomous vehicles could lead to decrease in car ownership, but only in cities (Axios)
Join Strong Towns to document Black Friday parking use (Strong Towns)
HSR opponents say state auditor report means HSR must die (Press Telegram)
Solana Beach getting serious about plastics ban (LA Times)
The air in California has been really, really bad (Bloomberg)
Now it's the “radical environmentalists” who are to blame for California fires, according to the very uninformed Trump administration (LA Times)
Trouble at HQ means a big bicycle retailer may close stores nationally (News Observer)
Why affordable housing is scarce in progressive cities (Curbed)
Prevent urban sprawl, save money (World Resources Institute)
Very scary: Trump administration hints it might share census information (Washington Post)

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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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