Today’s Headlines

7:39 AM PST on February 12, 2016

Antelope Valley Transit Authority will replace its entire fleet with electric buses (Daily Journal)
BART to sharply raise parking fees for sports, special events at Coliseum (Oakland Tribune)
U.S. DOT “overwhelmed” by applications to its Smart City Challenge (MobilityLab)
What Obama's budget proposal could do for biking (People for Bikes)
A first look at San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority's Office of Innovation (Medium)
The bicycle as a social justice tool (Planetizen)
Supreme Court ruling puts climate change policies in limbo—but not in California (Governing)
Older Americans are also ditching their cars (NPR)
Report: Transit tax incentive doesn't make up for costs of parking subsidies (Transit Center)
Yes, railroads induce sprawl (Itinerant Urbanist)
Bay Area's wetlands restoration projects are working (CityLab)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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