Today’s Headlines

8:48 AM PST on November 25, 2019

Imagine fewer cars: CoMotion LA conference (Government Technology)
Caltrans describes plans to widen I-80 between Davis, Sacramento (Davis Enterprise)
Nevada wants California to help it expand a highway (Reno Gazette Journal)
Freight trains are supposed to give passenger trains priority; when they don't, Amtrak can't sue (Transport Topics)
LA County explores congestion pricing pilots (Government Technology)
Campaign for zero traffic deaths faces political obstacles (CityLab)
Honolulu's "distracted walking" law has done nothing for pedestrian safety (Ka Leo)
Cities need to innovate to reduce emissions, improve transportation (The Conversation)
Study: racism in ride-hail (CityLab)
Switch to renewable energy, and there's no need to study carbon capture (Nation of Change)
CA cities push back against greedy landlords (LA Times)
Zillow sees more homes becoming available as boomers downsize, die (Zillow)

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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