Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:13 AM PDT on August 9, 2019
- So many people commute by bike in Copenhagen (LA Times, Urban Land Institute)
- Furniture made from dead bike-share bikes (Fast Company)
- California, and the Bay Area, still have environmental work to do (Bay Nature)
- Coastal Commission approves Highway 101 improvement project in Eureka/Arcata (Lost Coast Outpost)
- Rent control comes to Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
- Nope, proposed federal fuel standards rollbacks are not safer (Boston Globe)
- Key architect of rollbacks to depart (E&E News)
- Why speed kills cities (CityLab)
- Is the answer to L.A.’s housing crisis in your backyard? (LAist)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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