Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

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By Melanie Curry

8:46 AM PDT on May 4, 2017

A shout out to bike commuters (ABC10)
People in Sacramento aren’t sure what “jaywalking” is (Capital Public Radio)
Persistence pays off with new bike lanes in Woodside (Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition)
Cupertino proposes bike boulevards (The Mercury News)
Most Americans see value in public transportation (Mobility Lab)
Analysis of new cap-and-trade proposal (Sacramento Bee)
Arguments about cap-and-trade and the definition of “tax” continue (Fox&Hounds)
CA climate investments leading to more zero-emission vehicles in the Central Valley (Central Valley Business Times)
Lots of questions and comments to the DMV around self-driving cars rules (Ars Technica)
Housing: A Palo Alto “tear down” exposes a hole in local housing policies (Vox)
ICYMI: The guy in charge of U.S. public housing doesn’t want people living in it be comfortable (NY Times)
In Orange County, $84,000 a year now qualifies as “low-income” (Orange County Register)
Chemical Safety Board, in charge of investigating Torrance refinery explosion, is threatened by Trump budget cuts (Daily News)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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