Today’s Headlines

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)

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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