Today’s Headlines

8:07 AM PDT on August 29, 2019

Skateboarders are saving your city (CityLab)
Plungers in San Luis Obispo demonstrate need for protected bike lanes (New Times SLO)
Google maps (finally!!) adds multimodal trip planning: train + bike-share, e.g. (The Verge)
To build safe streets, address racism in urban design (Brookings)
Just drive less, everyone (New York Times)
Google's plans for San Jose transit village revealed (Government Technology)
- Feds to award the project $125 million (Mercury News)
Mining company destroys public land, so the solution is: they buy it? (Desert Sun)
Every candidate should be talking about transportation and climate. Only one is (Curbed)
Capitalism's roots in slavery (NY 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, 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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