Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PDT on October 4, 2019

A proposed index to measure a city's bike friendliness (Columbia)
Unless roads are designed to be forgiving, there's no margin for error (Kostelec Planning)
More on governor's executive order on funding, climate (Sacramento Business Journal)
Why Transportation for America is no longer advocating for more transportation funding
Tesla's summon-your-car feature is live. And dangerous. Why is it legal? (Transport Topics)
Cars drivers are killing more and more pedestrians (Guardian)
"Cool" pavements: they forgot to account for reflectivity (CityLab)
Stockton's experiment with universal income is half over (CityLab)
Politics, air quality, and the Central Valley residents who just want to breath clean air (CityLab)
How green infrastructure in Berkeley slows runoff, aids sustainability (Daily Cal)
Local air district approves plan to improve air quality in West Oakland (SF Gate)
LAX to end curbside pickup by Uber, Lyft (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, 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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SBCTA Could Finally End One of the Country’s Worst Zombie Projects: The ONT Connector

“The ONT Connector is an inappropriate investment. Ridership capacity and public transportation utility do not support spending billions of dollars for it. Scrapping the project is the right decision. Electric rail to ONT is the appropriate decision,” writes Kevin Dedicatoria, The Transit Coalition, Community Consultant.