Today’s Headlines

8:39 AM PDT on March 9, 2020

Expanding highways increases traffic (Curbed)
Why so many transit agencies, Bay Area? (KALW)
Are frequent flier programs contributing to climate change? (New York Times)
A cautionary tale about cops, surveillance, and location data from biking apps (NBC)
California-built e-bikes (Electrek)
California's other electric vehicle industry is booming (Inside EVs)
CARB is grappling with how to regulate ride-hail to halt its carbon emissions (LA Times)
The climate calculations on e-bike vs car (Grist)
Popping a wheelie and riding it for 100 yards or more is not illegal (MassLive)

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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