Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:13 AM PDT on April 16, 2019
- Road diet in Silver Lake is a success and will stay, says LADOT (Curbed)
- Oakland’s Scraper Bike team takes a spring infrastructure ride (Mercury News)
- Map: U.S. counties where air pollution from traffic hurts kids the most–hello, California (The Conversation)
- State program aims to help with that, funding clean transportation in vulnerable communities (Yuba.net)
- Public transportation is transforming California’s housing market (HousingWire)
- What it means that Uber finally admits it is competing with public transit (Long Beach Post)
- Over sixty U.S. companies paid no taxes this year (Center for Public Integrity)
- The economic argument for sprawl housing–crushed (Planetizen)
- Phone addiction is a thing and drivers have it (Forbes)
- S.F. reports its scooter pilot was a success (SF Chronicle)
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