Today’s Headlines

8:12 AM PDT on March 13, 2019

A cyclist gets hit, and asks whether riding in the road is worth the risk (Outside)
Senator Wiener makes sweeping changes to transit-housing bill (Curbed)
Does this app map crime, or paranoia? (CityLab)
Why lawsuits against cities for unsafe conditions aren't making much of a difference (Planetizen)
National bill would provide funds to measure accessibility to jobs, not just car commutes (SSTI)
London is crowdsourcing street safety (Smart Cities World)
Closing central Madrid boosted retail spending there by 9.5% (Forbes)
A history of Berkeley's racist zoning laws (Berkeleyside)
Venture capital thinks new mobility is worth billions (Forbes)
Local Motors releases first crash test footage of self-driving bus (The Verge)

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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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