Today’s Headlines

8:29 AM PDT on October 9, 2020

Let's insist that drivers take responsibility for the congestion they cause, the way we do pedestrians for their safety (City Commentary)
Pedestrian/bike path between Boron and Desert Lake opens, and men make speeches (Mojave Desert News)
Can Strava be used to deduce the preferences of all bike riders? Maybe (Medium)
More on most recent Executive Order from Governor Newsom (SF Chronicle)
Automakers push back on move to ban gas-powered cars. We've been down this road before (Governing)
The case for reining in car advertising (Mobility Lab)
COVID inspired Oakland to get real about equitable planning (Next City)
Uber hoping to push Prop 22 beyond California (Tech Crunch)
Google unveils its plan for its San Jose "village" (Mercury News)
The looming crisis in unpaid rent - for renters, small landlords, and local governments (Governing)
Researchers gave homeless people $7500, found it more than paid for itself - for them and for service providers (CBC)

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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