Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:30 AM PDT on August 23, 2019
- Amsterdam expands its bike subscription service (Bloomberg)
- Questions raised about IIHS risk assessment of protected bikeways (Forbes)
- There have been many studies of Uber and Lyft, and all have found negative impacts: traffic, crash rates, transit ridership (Curbed)
- Uber drivers need data about their own trips (CityLab)
- A new Urban Mobility Report, still wrong (City Observatory)
- Nine-county Bay Area region may have a transportation sales tax on 2020 ballot (Patch)
- Sacramento adopts rent control ordinance (NextCity)
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