Today’s Headlines

8:51 AM PST on February 25, 2019

Jump bikes are more popular than Uber in Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
Lime bikes pulling out of Bay Area cities to focus on scooters (Mountain View Voice)
Newsom tackles the problems of high-speed rail amidst criticism (LA Times)
Caltrans argues for wider roads and removing crosswalks in Eureka (North Coast Journal)
San Rafael multi-use path construction hits a few delays (Marin Independent Journal)
Sacramento State launches on-campus electric driverless shuttles (Sacramento Bee)
The merits of a pedestrian-friendly city (New Times)
SANDAG's new executive director tells the board to get real (Voice of San Diego)
State bill proposes limit on cities' ability to downzone to prevent dense housing (Urbanize Los Angeles)
Where California teachers have the hardest time paying rent, mortgages (Sacramento Bee)
Connecting housing and transportation in the state budget (Desert Sun)

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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