Today’s Headlines

• Governor Brown steps in to ask the feds for Caltrain's promised money: “Can we discuss this on the phone?” —and, incredibly, the LA Times once again conflates Caltrain and High Speed Rail
• Menlo Park plans to merge transportation, bicycle commissions (Mercury News)
• We keep building near freeways, despite evidence that it makes people sick (LA Times)
  • Here's the work that went into reporting that story (LA Times)
• What cities looked like before the EPA existed (CityLab)
• To fight climate change, California needs all its tools (Sacramento Bee)
  • More cap-and-trade money ought to go to the Central Valley (Merced Sun Star)
  • But not much money is coming in (Capital Press)
• How California holds a trump card on the environment (The Atlantic)
• Freight trucking costs us all a lot of money (City Commentary)
• This tool compares cities on equity, resilience, housing (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
• Google mappers are also census takers (The Economist)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF