Today’s Headlines

7:33 AM PDT on June 27, 2019

Oregon passes law allowing bike riders to treat stop signs as yields (Bike Portland)
E-bikes are popular, but regulations are inconsistent and slow to catch up (Phys.Org)
Fight smog, ride a bike (Northeast News)
To increase bike commuting, look to neighborhoods (Ohio State University)
Former CA governor Arnold Schwarzenegger mugs it up for electric cars (Mashable)
Bill that would add penalties for distracted driving moves forward (CBS)
What if all this highway building has just been a big mistake? (Leo Weekly)
Conservatives nudge the Supreme Court to dismantle affordable housing policies (The Intercept)
A deep dive into upzoning and its effects on affordable housing (Governing)

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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