Today’s Headlines

8:46 AM PDT on March 26, 2019

Housing policy is climate policy (NY Times)
Bike path alongside SMART railway is taking way too long to finish (Press Democrat)
How many trees are needed to cool a city street: 40% canopy cover (Popular Science)
Residents wanted long-haul bus service to Westwood, Las Vegas, so Long Beach transit agency found partners to provide it (Business Journal)
Development in Santa Barbara would threaten pedestrian safety (Edhat)
Americans are driving more than ever (Route Fifty)
More on tool to estimate induced travel in California (SSTI)
Testing Google's walking directions of the future (Gizmodo)
It's possible to attach your own private car to Amtrak--for now (CityLab)
An ancient trash pit reveals how a climate shift decimated an ancient city (National Geographic)
People are really confused about the benefits and drawbacks of one-way streets (LAist)

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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