Today’s Headlines

8:53 AM PST on January 13, 2020

Can e-bikes REALLY replace cars? (SF Chronicle)
E-scooter injuries "soar" with rise in e-scooter trips (SF Chronicle)
SANDAG approves $90 million for Regional Bikeway Program (Del Mar Times)
CA attorney general, CARB accuse Moreno Valley of sidestepping CEQA to approve huge warehouse project (Press Enterprise)
Newsom's budget includes "ambitious climate plan" (Capital Public Radio)
SF Exploratorium uses king tide to talk about effects of sea level rise (SF Chronicle)
Trump seeking to exempt some pipelines, highways from environmental review (LA Times)
LA taxis took a hit with Uber, Lyft (NY Times)
Customs rules that e-bikes are exempt from tariffs on Chinese imports (Bicycle Retailer)
How Oakland's environmental justice movement transformed California's regulatory culture on climate change (Green Biz)
Comment period on SCAG's 25-year transportation plan now open (Champion News)
- As is comment period for Riverside's "traffic relief plan" (Patch)
Study: San Luis Obispo students still like to drive (Gov Tech)

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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