Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:01 AM PDT on May 7, 2019
- Pedestrian injuries are on the rise (Mercury News)
- Beautiful bike parking in the Netherlands (Treehugger)
- Few of the “best bike cities” in the U.S. are in California–Santa Monica sneaks in at #14 (Gear Junkie)
- Parking! Traffic! Manteca worries about future ACE train service (Manteca/Ripon Bulletin)
- Pothole vigilantes fix a problem cities can’t seem to get to (My Stateline)
- The best thing a city can do for itself: plant more trees (Fast Company)
- Sacramento rolls out more than 250 electric car-shares (Government Technology)
- As air pollution worsens, Trump administration weakens air quality rules (Salon)
- and threatens to raise tariffs again on Chinese goods–like bikes (Bicycle Retailer)
- Working in a parking spot: the idea is spreading (Curbed)
- Defining gentrification (Slate)
- Singapore tries rooftop gardens–on buses (Yahoo News)
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