Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Today’s Headlines

Lime appeals SF scooter permit plan “developed in secret” (Curbed) Rising housing costs are re-segregating Bay Area (UC Berkeley) Palo Alto spends $46 million on new housing… for cars (Systemic Failure) This is paradise: A car-free city in Spain (Guardian) Decline and rebirth of Rotterdam’s “city living room” (Guardian) San Diego joins Orange County with […]

Why isn’t cycling “normal”? (The Urbanist) Cities, obsessed with cars, overlook simple solutions to climate change (Curbed) What the battle over scooters gets wrong (University of California) San Francisco may approve dockless bike-share expansion (SF Examiner) New owner takes on high-speed rail project between Las Vegas, Los Angeles (Railway Age, Wall Street Journal) The forces […]

Bikes are climate action (Learned On) Traveling with kids shows how great transit could be (Curbed) Media build up story that scooters are dangerous, say cities are “naive” not to heavily regulate them (Gov Tech) Not a joke: Prop 6 proponents say the gas tax is “terrorism” (10News) Carpool lane rules tighten, “clean car” owners […]

Cycling is the key to safer, healthier, more vital cities (CityLab) How a transportation safety net could help prevent homelessness (CALmatters) Why kids aren’t walking to school (Long Beach Post) The big commitments from the Global Climate Action Summit (GreenBiz) Brown signs green-vehicle laws (Courthouse News) …including one that will regulate emissions from ride-hail companies […]

Governor Brown signs 16 bills on clean energy, clean transportation (News Observer) Global Climate Action Summit: Commitments, pledges, protestors (LA Times) Brown meets with international leaders on climate change (Lake County News) BART board greenlights Lake Merritt TOD (BART) Bus Rapid Transit coming to the San Fernando Valley (Curbed) Bird creates e-scooter “no go” zones […]

Global Climate Action Summit begins in San Francisco (Capital Public Radio) U.S. mayors are taking action on the climate (Route Fifty) Accessory Dwelling Units are hard to build, even in San Francisco (Bay City Beacon) Don’t make it so hard! (Strong Towns) Some solutions for pedestrian safety (World Bank) Will Pasadena roll out scooters now […]