Today’s Headlines

8:43 AM PDT on March 28, 2019

Central Coast Active Transportation Plan seeks public input (KSBY)
It's not your imagination: Pedestrian deaths are at a 30-year high (NPR)
Millenials drive just as much as their elders (CityLab)
A Michael Pollan lens on transportation consumption (GreenBiz)
Where CA cap-and-trade money went (Grist)
Study links air pollution to psychotic episodes in teens (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
The false narrative that homelessness is a choice (Urban Institute)
Machines make mistakes--how can we trust AI to drive? (Newsweek)
In police violence, cities and their suburbs are inseparable (CityLab)
Make America Grate Again: Artist builds a wall of cheese at the border (LA Times)

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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