Today’s Headlines

7:29 AM PST on January 19, 2017

TODAY: California Bicycle Coalition hosts webinar on electric bike-share (Bicycle Retailer)
L.A. gets its first all-electric DASH buses (Mass Transit)
S.F. threatens legal action against rogue bike-share company (Examiner) (SFist)
Assemblymembers seek rural representation on California Transportation Commission (Sierra Sun Times)
CalEnviroScreen, CA's tool for defining disadvantaged communities, gets an update (Safe Routes to School)
Developer hopes to get permission to build tiny prefab houses for the homeless in Berkeley and beyond (Berkeleyside)
Meet L.A. County's first regional sustainability chief (The Planning Report)
L.A. isn't overdeveloped, it's in a slump (LA Times)
This is what happens when you cut funding (Archinect)
Op-Ed: The state must fund better roads NOW, say labor and construction industry reps (Sacramento Bee)
BART will guarantee parking spots for carpoolers with new app (East Bay Times)
France adopts helmet law for kids (Systemic Failure)

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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