Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PDT on August 12, 2019

Study: Pedal-assist e-bike riders get more exercise than regular-bike riders (Treehugger)
Bike-share and scooters are less appealing when the price per trip is high (Time)
Google Maps rolls out its "augmented reality" walking directions (Gizmodo)
There's a new boss in charge of San Francisco's Central Subway project (SF Examiner)
Trump administration killed a committee on autonomous vehicles and didn't tell its members (The Verge)
Environmental law update: States sue over federal standards rollback; Final draft released to White House; more (JD Supra)
Two autonomous delivery pilot programs are testing in California (Business Insider)

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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