Today’s Headlines

8:19 AM PDT on October 6, 2017

Sacramento tests a protected bikeway (Getting Around Sac, Sacramento Bee)
Why are we scaring kids away from walking to school? (TreeHugger)
Authority plans better rail connection between Sacramento and the Central Valley (Sacramento Bee)
Metrolink unveils “clean” diesel locomotives (SGVT)
More on pedestrian countdown signal bill (Curbed, KQED)
You don't say, AAA? “Complex infotainment systems” putting driver's lives at risk? (And what about everyone else on the road?) (LA Times)
It's not crazy to ban gas-powered cars in California (Sacramento Bee)
It's crazy to ban gas-powered cars in California (SF Examiner)
CA Congressional Republicans throw down against gas tax, calling it a “bailout” but offering no alternative (LA Times)
Big Sur bridge set to open on Highway 1 (US News)
Reopening clean car standards is harmful, unjustified (NRDC)
Singapore, bike-share companies outline agreement on bike parking; companies will adopt “geo-fencing” (ChannelNewsAsia)
Governor Brown's Rolling Stone interview

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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