Today’s Headlines

8:20 AM PDT on May 10, 2019

How e-bikes could transform aging (Fast Company)
Congestion pricing is fair because it speeds up buses (City Commentary)
Incrementalism in transportation planning in literally killing us (San Jose Spotlight)
The connections between housing, transportation, and health (Medium)
Corporate delusions of automation fuel Uber and Lyft's cruelty (Gizmodo)
What the "Twitter tax break" brought to Market (SF Chronicle)
The limits of design thinking (City Commentary)
I-10 toll lane construction to begin in 2020 (Fontana Herald)
Riding alone in a car is a luxury (The Economist)
The quintessential not-in-my-backyard argument: I got mine (The Nation)

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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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