Today’s Headlines

8:46 AM PDT on May 2, 2019

How much distracted driving happens? Insurers know (LA Times)
What happens when a city adopts Uber for its public transit system (CityLab)
The gender gap in transportation data (London Reconnections)
High speed rail plan shows higher costs, plan to start slowly (SF Chronicle)
CNN uses "removing X number of cars from the road" as a yardstick for personal actions on climate change--but fails to consider "not driving" as one of those actions
Metered parking spots are so much less expensive per hour than office space--so people are working at the curb (Fast Company)
L.A.'s first two-way bike lane debuts (LAist)
"Bicycle roads" are taking over Southern California!! (We wish) (Pasadena Star News)
Bird scooters return to SF with monthly rentals (Curbed)
Who is spending how much to influence CA legislation (Sacramento Bee)

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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