Today’s Headlines

• Tomorrow is Bike to Work Day in parts of the state (What?! RAIN is predicted? Well, how refreshing)
  • Bay Area
  • Los Angeles
  • Modesto
  • Arcata
  • Sacramento Capitol Bike Festival
• Other places will hold their BTWD on Friday
  • Bakersfield
  • Modesto (Bike with the Mayor)
  • Redding
  • San Diego
• Pedestrians in Oakland have to beg to cross the street, and wait longer, at more intersections (GJEL)
• How Sacramento’s streetcar could affect the city’s poor communities (Sacramento News & Review)
• California’s plan to reduce methane, refrigerant chemicals, other greenhouse gases (EDF)
• Marin County to hold Open House on Plan Bay Area (Marin Independent Journal)
• SMART trains are coming (Marin Independent Journal)
• Freeway tear-down proposed to make room for trains in San Francisco (SocketSite) (ABC) (KTVU)  (Daily Republic)
• L.A. Times taken to task for its story on high-speed rail fares (CAHSR)
• Why Mountain View said “no” to Google development (NextCity)
• The difference between a diverse city and an integrated city (FiveThirtyEight)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF