Thursday’s Headlines

Heat, fire, smoke; The case against driving kids to school; Freight can shrink its footprint; More

By Melanie Curry

8:53 AM PDT on September 12, 2024

SoCal Fires burning

Heat, fire, smoke, and oil company advertising (LA Times Boiling Point)
The case(s) against driving kids to school (SF Standard)
It's actually safer for everyone when it's legal for bike riders treat stop signs as "yield" signs (Electrek)
Rodeo Drive added giant balls to protect pedestrians, but they take up half the sidewalk (Beverly Press)
Free rides on Caltrain this weekend to celebrate electrification (Mass Transit)
- …and on Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus during SoCal Transit Week (9/30-10/4) (Santa Monica Lookout)
Driverless taxis still need human help (NY Times)
Forum: Cars are getting bigger and more dangerous - what can we do about it? (KQED)
Has gasoline use in California peaked? (Union of Concerned Scientists)
Freight can have a smaller footprint (Transportation 4 America)
Berkeley and BART reach a deal that could move forward project to replace parking lots with housing (Berkeleyside)
Survey: 70% of Londoners want MORE low-traffic neighborhoods (Forbes)

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Melanie Curry

@StreetsblogCal

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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