Today’s Headlines

• San Diego’s “aggressive” bike plan includes hiring someone to oversee it (San Diego Union Tribune)
• Well-off communities Laguna Beach and Newport Beach are fixing their sidewalks (LA Times)
• Bay Bridge bike path to open seven days a week (SF Weekly)
• The very thought of roundabouts gets people in a tizzy, but they are safer, smoother, cheaper (Modesto Bee)
• Palm Springs mayor wants to scale down the CV Link in his city (Desert Sun)
• A Rancho Cucamonga mixed-use project will have an “east coast feel” (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
• Apple gets a permit to test self-driving cars in CA (Business Standard)
• Apple claims its new HQ is the greenest building in the world–not with all that parking it isn’t (Slate)
  • Parking is powerful (Strong Towns)
• Construction contract approved for express lanes in Riverside County (Patch.com)
• Plaintiff plans to try again with cap-and-trade ruling (Law360)
  • LA Times and Sacramento Bee wonder if the legislature can muster another two-thirds vote for cap-and-trade
• SB1 will help bring the ACE train to Modesto (Mass Transit)
  • And the OC Register suggests the ACE deal “broke the law”
• Is CA winning the war on greenhouse gas emissions? (Sacramento Bee)
• Can CA lead other states on climate change? (LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF