Parking Madness Final Four: Hicksville vs. Nashville
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Either a sorry commuter rail station in Long Island or the area surrounding the Tennessee Titans stadium is going to the championship.
Today’s Headlines
|- After hit-and-runs, L.A. riders are shaken, plead for safer streets (Curbed)
- City audit: San Diego police not giving out many tickets to drivers for violating pedestrian safety (San Diego Union Tribune)
- SF Supervisors to consider an e-scooter ordinance (Hoodline)
- BART plans another sea of parking around a new Livermore station (Systemic Failure)
- Tesla no longer official party to crash investigation after blog post that aimed to absolve the company (Patch)
- Dispute over money in SB 1 repeal campaign (LA Times)
- High-speed rail to be audited by feds (Capital Public Radio)
- The ‘”fight club” of biking? (CityLab)
- Whatever we do, we cannot spend so much money on a –gasp– bike path! But car lanes—that’s different (Marin Independent Journal)
- Feds consider “bailing out” failing coal and nuclear industries (Environmental Defense Fund)
- Advocates say state regulators are not doing enough to reduce emissions (Medium)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
A New Approach to Retrofitting a Dangerous Suburban Road
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The Syracuse suburb of Dewitt is overhauling its wide, dangerous traffic artery -- and putting bikes at the center.
Walk San Francisco Creates “Scooters Behaving Badly” Facebook Album
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Advocacy group hears mounting complaints about scooters cluttering the sidewalks
Losing a Son, Starting a Movement
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Amy Cohen of Families for Safe Streets is empowering people around the country who've lost loved ones to traffic violence to fight for change.
Parking Madness Final Four: Lansing vs Philadelphia
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Which deserves to go to the parking crater championship? The state capitol asphalt acreage or the sports complex mega-lot?
Today’s Headlines
|- Bike San Diego gets a new Executive Director (BikeSD)
- Los Angeles creates a Shared Mobility Climate and Equity Action Plan (NRDC)
- There’s another state housing bill that would change zoning, allow more housing (LA Times)
- Rent control campaign hits the streets in California (NY Times)
- Tesla clashes with federal investigators over deadly crash (Washington Post)
- How BART used social media to turn a crisis into an opportunity (Mobility Lab)
- Bird calls it an “extraordinary” scooter ban, San Francisco says bosh (Curbed)
- Here’s a game/tool for city planners and community members as well (Fast Company)
- Local news site creates a new model for supporting community news (Berkeleyside)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
22-year-old Killed in Hit-and-Run at Manchester/Normandie; Driver Plows Through Mourners Corking Intersection to Protest Death
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The images were a sobering reminder of how terrifyingly fragile the human body is when confronted by a multi-ton vehicle traveling at just about any speed.
Amendments to S.B. 827 Help Push Transit Housing Bill Forward
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Senator Scott Wiener has revised S.B. 827, the Transit-Rich Housing Bonus, his bill to allow more housing near public transportation.
Parking Madness: Fremont vs. Hicksville
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If you've ever wondered what's wrong with American commuter rail, take a good look at the two parking craters facing off today.
Today’s Headlines
|- If you want cyclists to follow the law, make it possible for them to do so without dying (Bike Snob)
- San Diego pledges to ramp up efforts to eliminate pedestrian deaths (San Diego Union Tribune)
- After pedestrian seriously injured, Watsonville to add a flashing beacon (Register-Pajaronian)
- Caltrain launches program to speed boarding—bikes first (Peninsula Moves)
- Bill would increase bike access on buses (Santa Monica Daily Press)
- Tesla blames the driver in fatal crash (Financial Review)
- The Oakland A’s think a gondola would solve transit at a new ballpark (NBC)
- Uber wants all the travel data (Wired)
- Lyft likes Wiener’s housing bill (SF Curbed)
- Tiny Truckee shows how to do infill (Sacramento Bee)
- The housing crisis is global, not local (CityLab)
- Activists urge Jerry Brown to phase out California oil production (Sacramento Bee)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
City of San Diego Announces Commitment to Its First Vision Zero Improvements
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Fifteen dangerous intersections, identified by safety advocates, will get basic safety treatments