Could Augmented Reality Windshields End Distracted Driving?
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If a new style of head-up design works as designed, cars might be safer.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Bakersfield says it has ended chronic homelessness (Fast Company)
- COVID job losses will increase LA’s homeless population (LA Times)
- Greater Sacramento region stay-at-home order lifted (but wear a mask) (Sacramento Bee)
- …while LA County braces for another surge on top of this one (LA Times)
- Uber, Lyft drivers sue to overturn Prop 22 (Transport Topics, Sacramento Bee)
- Temporary closures planned at Richmond BART station (Local News Matters)
- How downtowns could rebound and thrive (Route Fifty)
- Why bike-share works really well, sometimes (BBC)
- USDOT releases autonomous vehicle guidance (Planetizen)
- AARP releases handbook for building better neighborhoods
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Advocate Urges Removal of S.F.’s “Beg Buttons”
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Beg buttons serve motorists at the expense of people who walk. It's time to correct this
Champs-Élysées Makeover Inspires U.S. Advocates to Push for Better City Arterials
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As Parisians celebrate a new plan to pedestrianize the Champs-Élysées and cut car traffic in half, Americans street safety advocates demand redesigns for their own cities' dangerous downtown arteries.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Paint doesn’t do anything: Stop lines at stop signs do not encourage stopping (Route Fifty)
- Study: Salt Lake City light rail reduced vehicle traffic even as population grew (SLC Tribune)
- Fenced off from their grazing land, wild burros worry Riverside officials: How will they safely cross the streets? (Daily Bulletin)
- Climate experts work out a way to get rolling on Biden’s emissions goals (CityLab)
- Failed auction of Arctic oil leases has lessons for climate activists (Heated)
- Get ready for mass vaccinations (SF Chronicle, LA Times)
- CA Assembly calls for Trump’s resignation (resolution passes 51-6; most Republicans declined to vote) (Sacramento Bee)
- High speed rail contractor blasts delays (LA Times)
- Rents are lower, but more scams against tenants (SF Chronicle)
- Armed “protests” [terrorist attacks] planned at capitals around the nation, warns FBI (LA Times, San Diego Union Tribune)
- Seeing traffic as a system leads to trying to solve it with big fancy tech (Government Technology)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
SF’s ‘Vision Zero’ Failure in One Callout
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The city still has people on staff who think a "sharrow" on a four-lane arterial (with two more lanes for parking) constitutes bike safety. That's a big problem
Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal
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Cities might soon get the kind of federal money they need to tear down the downtown highways that federal dollars paid them to build — and to reinvest in communities of color that those highways destroyed.
New York State Senator Pushes ‘Idaho Stop’ Legalization Bill
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An upstate State Senator has introduced a bill that would allow cyclists to slow-roll through stop signs and go through red lights after a quick full stop.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- In Shasta County, a pro-Trump crowd threatened officials with violence: “We have to make them scared again” (LA Times)
- The “antler guy” is no climate activist (Heated)
- San Diego is massively expanding its protected bike lanes, and they’re not for cyclists who want to speed (San Diego Union Tribune)
- The Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition is more than just a ride around the block (Lompoc Record)
- Merced considers changes to downtown traffic flow to accommodate more on-street parking (Merced County Times)
- Ukiah Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan to get an update (Willits News)
- It’s time to set more ambitious targets for zero emission trucks and buses (EDF)
- US fleet average fuel economy is going the wrong way (CNET)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Op-Ed: Finally, a Chance for Environmental Justice
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The new federal administration promises to join arms with state and local advocates and give leadership to this environmental justice efforts.
Study: E-Taxis Increase Private Car Ownership in Many Cities
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"Ride-hailing" apps once lauded for their potential to help end private car ownership are actually increasing it in many cities, a new study finds.
Metro/Caltrans Neighborhood Erasure along the Lower 5 Freeway
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Metro and Caltrans have erased hundreds of houses, apartments, and businesses - in the cities of Norwalk and Santa Fe Springs - to widen the 5 Freeway