Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

By Melanie Curry

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)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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