Today’s Headlines

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

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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