Today’s Headlines

8:41 AM PST on March 1, 2019

Report: Pedestrian deaths reach highest level in decades (NPR)
Increase bike-share, increase transit ridership (Curbed)
Victorville begins work on Mojave Riverwalk (Victorville Daily Press)
City of Highland adds roundabout, bike lanes to road repair project in bid for ATP grant (Highland News)
- but didn't get enough money and had to decline the grant (Highland News)
Berkeley officials push for zoning reform to increase "missing middle" housing (Berkeleyside)
- It's not just a problem in Berkeley (Daily News)
San Jose approves "co-living," dorm-style housing (Curbed)
The high price we pay for cheap gas (CityCommentary)
Cap-and-trade auctions are doing just fine (Environmental Defense Fund)
Concrete is bad for human bodies (The Guardian)
Facebook could one day fund trains across S.F. Bay (East Bay Times)
Images: Flooding in Northern California (S.F. 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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