Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:33 AM PDT on April 21, 2016
- Oakland developers will pay an affordable housing fee (East Bay Times)
- L.A. Metro also cracking down on seat hogs (Curbed LA)
- Ten things to know about proposed federal congestion measures (Transportation4America)
- Jarrett Walker: Why is the media obsessed with stories that claim transit is failing? (Human Transit)
- What helmets do and don’t do: the physics of banging your head (JustAnotherCyclist)
- This simple graphic explains why widening highways doesn’t work (Greater Greater Washington)
- Urban trees solve so many of our problems (KCET)
- We need transit villages atop BART, train stations (San Jose Mercury News)
- Bill Walton is all about the bike (Wall Street Journal)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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