Today’s Headlines

8:43 AM PST on December 18, 2018

E-bikes are good for a lot of reasons (BoingBoing)
You can't evacuate a city like LA just using cars (Curbed)
Big polluters get free allowances from cap-and-trade system, raising doubts about CA's commitment to fighting climate change (CALmatters)
Caltrans publishes climate vulnerability assessments for state highways (KPIX)
UN Climate Summit is a lot of talk, resistance to facts (Forbes)
Advancing e-scooters and bikes in cities (Clean Technica)
The organizers who want to abolish single-family zoning in Minneapolis (NextCity)
SF loses affordable housing units as fast as it can build them (KQED)

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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