Book Review: Learning from the Fietser Kings
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New book explains how the Netherlands set the benchmark for all others when it comes to safe streets and people-first city planning
To Get Drivers to Yield to Pedestrians, St. Paul is Using Psychological Tricks
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A multi-phased experiment in St. Paul increased driver yielding to pedestrians from 32 to more than 70 percent. And it decreased unsafe passing of yielding cars 10 fold.
Today’s Headlines
|- Scooters highlight a transportation crisis (Motherboard)
- Goleta goes ahead with Bicycle Pedestrian Master Plan (Noozhawk)
- Drivers wildly overestimate what “semiautonomous vehicles” can do (Wired)
- Oslo uses the “greedy method” to make small immediate changes to help clean air (Deseret News)
- SF judge throws out charges against homeless people for camping (SF Chronicle)
- SF is finding that enforcing its law against sitting or lying on the sidewalk doesn’t work (SF Gate)
- Venice people with houses are angry that there are homeless people near them (LA Times)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Talking Headways Podcast: Waiting for the Ghost Bus
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This week, we'll talk about OneBusAway, an open source platform for real time transit info.
Data Confirms Uber and Lyft Jam up San Francisco
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TNCs cause more traffic delays than anything else, according to a new study
Report Offers Better Ways to Cut Traffic from New Development
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What if instead of requiring developers to add parking or widen roads, we asked them to do things that discouraged driving and car ownership? That's what Smart Growth America recommends.
Today’s Headlines
|- Are gas taxes being misused, as Prop 6 proponents claim? No (LA Times)
- TRIP report says CA roads are in bad shape, getting worse, costing drivers money (Sacramento Bee)
- and San Francisco has the worst! (SF Chronicle)
- How industry learned to stop worrying and love California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (Forbes)
- Electric vehicles and the need for cultural change (Forbes)
- Survey says: Americans are willing to pay to reduce congestion–but maybe not support transit (Smart Cities Dive)
- Candidates for governor in U.S. states differ on transportation issues (The Transport Politic)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Return of the Scooters
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They're now permitted, but are they being parked properly? And are there enough to constitute a useful service?
Vermont/Manchester: Reckoning with the Past and Wrestling with the Form Change Should Take
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For black stakeholders eager to shed the despised "Death Alley" label and address the damage rooted in segregationist policies, the stakes feel especially high
What Does It Mean for Bike Advocacy When Big Business Hires the Advocates?
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It's either game-changing...or greenwashing.
Bus Routes Helping Bridge Milwaukee’s Notorious Racial-Economic Divide
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New research shows two reverse-commute bus routes are providing a vital link for low-income neighborhoods. But the state may stop funding them.
Today’s Headlines
|- A long-term solution for e-scooter shares (The Atlantic)
- Report finds that half of the congestion in SF is from Uber, Lyft (SF Examiner) (Tech Crunch)
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- SF Chronicle looks for “people behaving badly” as scooters are reintroduced to SF
- “Lane squeeze”–er, road diet, sidewalk improvements–proposed on SF’s 6th Street, where pedestrians are hit often (SF Chronicle)
- Accusations fly about coordination on campaign for gas tax (Mercury News)
- Projects in Tahoe area that will not be completed if Prop 6 passes (South Lake Tahoe Now)
- Evidence from Portland: Building a city where residents don’t have to drive so much saves money, builds economy (City Observatory)
- The housing crisis in Oakland: too little, too late? (UC Berkeley)
- New York’s empty storefronts could be a warning for others (CityLab)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF