1 Month After IPO, a Big JUMP in Prices at Uber’s Bike Share Service
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One month after banking $8.1 billion from a Wall Street IPO, Uber has raised the price of a simple bike ride on its JUMP e-cycles by 67 percent.
Building a Safer Mid-Block Crossing
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Regular crosswalks don't cut it at mid block. But there are lots of low-cost ways to upgrade mid-block crossings and save lives.
States Aren’t Even Trying to Reduce Traffic Deaths
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Most states, including CA, are aiming for more traffic deaths under a new federal program requiring them to set targets.
Today’s Headlines
|- Great Streets Improvements Underway On South Robertson (Urbanize)
- Two Days Left To Take SCAG’s Regional Transportation Plan Survey
- The Source Update On LAX Rail Connection
…LAX Closures Begin For People Mover Construction (Daily Breeze) - Robo-Pilot Tesla Spotted Carrying Sleeping Man On 405 Freeway For 30+Minutes (NBC4)
- Metrolink Train Crashes Into, Kills Pedestrian In Baldwin Park (Daily News)
- High-Speed Rail Is A Boondoggle (Daily Breeze)
…wait ’til they hear about highway spending!
…And Californians Still Want High-Speed Rail (SBSF) - Redeveloper Gilmore Buying Up Chinatown Properties (Curbed)
- Housing Costs Driving High California Cities Inflation Rates (LAT)
- Inspectors Citing Skid Row Businesses For Trash/Rodent Issues (LAT, Curbed)
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City of Sacramento Approves Free Transit Pass Program for All Students
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One-year program is a good investment that its backers hope to renew and expand countywide
Depaving Paradise: Grassroots Portland Group Reclaims Parking Lots by Hand
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Depave Portland is cleaning waterways and creating beautiful community spaces — one torn up parking lot at a time.
Talking Headways Podcast: The ‘Intelligent’ Transportation Future
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This week, we talk about how technology can reduce collisions, how we should spend infrastructure money, and, what else, policy.
Legislative Update: GHGs in Transportation Plans, Bike Lane Guidance, More
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A few bills passed today's Senate Transportation Committee
Today’s Headlines
| | 1 Comment- Purple Line Extension Tunnel Machine Breaks Through To Western (The Source)
- Eastside Gold Line Scoping Meetings Start Tonight (The Source)
- The Green New Deal And the Future Of the 405 Freeway (Mashable)
- Carnage: Car Crash On Imperial Highway Near LAX Kills One (LAT)
- Inglewood Approves Rent Control, Caps Increases At 5 Percent (Curbed)
- Eagle Rock Church Could Become Bridge Housing (Urbanize)
- Tax Vacancies – And Build Housing (LAT)
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State Still Wants its Bullet Train
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Despite years of mudslinging and attacks, people still just want a modern train system in California
Today’s Headlines
|- 25 Years Later, Movie Speed More Plausible At 9 MPH (Transfers)
- Metro Unsolicited Proposal Could Develop Atop MacArthur Park Station (Curbed)
- San Marino Group Pushes Rejecting Metro Road Monies (SGV Tribune)
- Driver Charged With Murder For Killing Hollywood E-Scooter Rider (Daily News)
- Legal Advice: What To Do If “Accident” Is Due To Poor Road Design (Daily News)
- More On Bonin Proposal To Tax Vacancies (Curbed, KTLA)
- State Homelessness Funds Parameters Not Resolved (LAT)
- Chicago Welcomes 10 E-Scooter Overlords (SB Chicago)
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