Today’s Headlines

8:27 AM PDT on June 11, 2019

Bay Area heat is hard on everyone, including BART (SF Chronicle)
Bike lanes need to be for everyone (Fast Company)
Should public transit fares be abolished? (Urbanist)
25 years after Speed, bus speeds in L.A. are quite a bit slower than 50 mph (Transfers)
Google is making lots of money from local news (via advertising) while local outlets are dying (support your local newspaper) (New York Times)
Electronic Frontier Foundation calls scooter bill A.B. 1112 a "privacy" bill--even though it does nothing to prevent collection of trip data
More about Lyft suing S.F. over bike-share (Curbed)
Do young people have a constitutional right to protection from climate change? White House says no, but court case proceeds. Slowly. (NY Times)
Why Oregon's cap-and-trade matters to California (CALmatters)
Making a case for carbon offsets (Phys.org)
Court reverses ruling that blocked Keystone Pipeline (KTVQ)

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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