Today’s Headlines

8:06 AM PDT on August 2, 2019

Paris is burning: Surviving extreme heat in a big city (Guardian)
A small city in Ontario downsizes its fire engines instead of obstructing safer street design (Treehugger)
Getting electric vehicles to pay a share of road maintenance (Planetizen)
Maybe you should stop flying? (Vox)
We have to price carbon (City Observatory)
In bankruptcy, PG&E renegotiates contracts with solar, wind energy providers; won't abandon CA's clean energy goals (Sacramento Bee)
Gentrification and displacement are not the same (City Observatory)

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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