Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PDT on August 21, 2019

How an e-bike changed my life (New York Times)
UCLA scooter, ebike pilot will limit speeds in certain areas. Can we do this with cars?
Trump's ham-handed attempt to roll back auto efficiency rules is falling into disarray (New York Times)
- Carmakers don't want the rollback (SF Chronicle)
Waze allows untrained, anonymous amateurs to turn quiet streets into traffic sewers (Los Angeles Magazine)
Lack of housing is contributing to very long commutes (Sacramento Bee)
Transportation funding allocations: Over $1 billion for projects statewide (Lake County News)
- including two projects in Santa Barbara (Santa Ynez Valley News)
Private funding to build freeway overcrossing for wildlife survival (LA Times)

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, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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