Today’s Headlines

8:46 AM PDT on March 27, 2019

Why L.A.'s ride-hail drivers went on strike (CityLab)
Congestion pricing in New York--and maybe San Francisco (SF Chronicle)
City of Commerce shows catastrophic impacts of--and solutions for-- climate change (The Nation)
Why dedicating public space for recreation is good for all (The CityFix)
The federal government is driving a national policy of sprawl (RouteFifty)
Ways to improve state DOTs (Governing)
Architecture sucks: Behind the glitzy, techno-urbanist facade of the Smart City lies the cold machinations of a police state (The Baffler)

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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