Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PDT on August 15, 2016

BART may finally reopen some restrooms closed after 9/11 (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bus service to BART and schools in Tri-Valley gets upgrade (East Bay Times)
Transportation alternatives for everywhere, including Tahoe (Tahoe Daily Tribune)
Sacramento transit agency to offer door-to-door transit alternatives for Kings Arena attendees (Sacramento Bee)
Oil industry lobbyists say all they want are “reasonable” climate targets –plus a bunch of other fundamental changes to cap-and-trade (Capital Public Radio)
Study: Stricter air pollution limits could save thousands of lives (LA Times)
Editorial: Legislature should just pass the climate change bill already (Ventura County Star)
California mayors urge legislature to pass climate change bill (LA Times)
Editorial: Fix our crumbling roads and bridges (Sacramento Bee)
A view of the national transportation mess (The American Prospect)
How e-bikes could transform our cities (Treehugger)

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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