Today’s Headlines
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) … Continued
8:57 AM PST on December 30, 2019
- 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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