Today’s Headlines
- Want to save the environment? Subsidize e-bikes (Outside)
- A food delivery robot wants to use the bike lane (Wired)
- Google maps adds bikeshare (Mashable)
- San Francisco makes e-scooters permanent (Curbed)
- While Oakland tries to make them available to everyone (East Bay Express)
- No reason to wait to make this Berkeley intersection safer (Berkeleyside)
- 70-year-old sets out to walk every Glendale street (LA Times)
- Drivers don't have to press a button to cross the street; why do pedestrians? (Streetsblog Denver)
- Tesla pushes ahead on making its cars autonomous, despite lack of regulation (Washington Post)
- BART is building housing at its stations (SF Chronicle)
- Learning from states that are testing better ways to spend transportation money (State Smart Transportation Institute)
- California, largest consumer of electricity in the west, long ago ended the "war on coal" (CALmatters)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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Wednesday’s Headlines
Permanent car-free Hayes St? No right turns on red? And why aren't new cars safer for people outside them? Carbon pollution costs a lot; More
California Has to Stop Building Freeways. Now.
"People aren't used to thinking of freeways as fossil fuel infrastructure, but they are." And once built, there's no going back, no making up for the extra driving by trying to convince people that a bus or train might be a better choice - we're stuck with it.
Metro September 2023 Board Committee Round-Up: C Line, 91 Freeway Widening, and More
Transit ridership and freeway funding are up. $14 million for MicroTransit was postponed. South Bay C Line extension draws both controversy and support. Law enforcement, Taylor Swift, bus lanes, and more!
What is the Life of a Dead Pedestrian Worth?
A Seattle police officer sparked outrage when he joked that the death of pedestrian Jaahnavi Kandula might be settled for as little as $11,000. Some families get even less.
Pols: Congress Must Bolster Sustainable Commutes to Reduce Carbon and Congestion
The feds should bolster sustainable commuting modes and transportation demand management strategies.
