Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:44 AM PDT on June 14, 2017
- BART tests new smart bike locks (Tech Crunch)
- L.A. mayor says: Increase capacity on the freeway with a monorail (L.A. Times)
- L.A. and Long Beach ports pledge to go green (Medium)
- Data on Uber, Lyft in S.F. released: They drive at least a fifth of all the miles driven (SFCTA)
- Clean transport companies want cap-and-trade extended (American Shipper)
- Collecting neighborhood smog data (Daily News)
- Legislators reach budget deal (L.A. Times)
- Google campus plan keeps growing (Mercury News)
- Oslo tried banning cars in its center, then tried banning parking; backlash (Guardian)
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