- Deloitte prediction: Bicycles can save cities (Forbes)
- Oregon adopts law allowing bicyclists to treat stop signs as yields (NBC)
- Bike lanes are transforming Paris (Forbes)
- 2019 was deadliest year for pedestrians in San Jose (and other places?) (CBS)
- San Diego--and other cities throughout CA--randomly choose days to enforce traffic safety laws against bikes, pedestrians (CBS)
- BART to double down on fare sweeps because they "are working" (SF Chronicle)
- Free rides on Santa Clara Valley transit until the end of the year (Mercury News)
- Light rail route shutting down because it's circuitous--a common problem (City Journal)
- Transit group walks back its comments opposing transit-housing bill (SF Examiner)
- California, climate change, and the trauma of the last decade (LA Times)
- Why Wall Street wants to price pollution (LA Times)
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