Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PST on February 11, 2020

Toronto dropped some urban speed limits and made its streets much safer (The Globe and Mail)
L.A. Mayor's Green New Deal directive includes transit improvements, more CicLAvia (NRDC)
Uber fails to block gig worker law A.B. 5 (Transport Topics)
San Diego to turn parking lots into a public plaza (San Diego Union Tribune)
E-scooters could survive in and benefit suburbs, with the right policies (CityLab)
Advocates push for protected bike lanes on S.F's Embarcadero (SF Chronicle)
MTC to work first on bus-only approaches to Bay bridges; bus-only lanes on bridges will have to wait (Bay Bridge for Everyone)
SF's wealthiest renters are having trouble paying for housing (Curbed)

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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