Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PDT on August 27, 2019

Housing insecurity is devastating lives everywhere in America, especially in the richest cities (The New Republic)
Ride-hail drivers don't have access to their own data (CityLab)
Uber and Lyft take a lot more from drivers than they claim to (Jalopnik)
Mapping carbon emissions over L.A. (Northern Arizona University)
Determining how much in emissions are avoided when people ride transit (Science Daily)
Koch left behind a legacy of climate change and ugly politics, all for his own personal gain (Salt Lake Tribune)
Carbon offsets might be a really bad idea (Technology Review)
Oakland approves housing tower at West Oakland BART station (Curbed)

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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