Today’s Headlines

9:54 AM PDT on July 1, 2015

Strategic Growth Council confirms recipients of Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities grants (CP&DR) (see Streetsblog's earlier coverage here)
California Air Resources Board reports falling greenhouse gas emissions in the state (SF Chronicle)
Streetfilms: The NY Times Magazine “Ethicist” discusses the ethics of urban transportation (StreetFilms)
Ways to move more people across the bottleneck of the San Francisco Bay (SPUR)
San Francisco ferry and cable car fares, bridge tolls to rise on July 1 (San Francisco Examiner)
- Muni fares, too (Examiner)
Intercity Rail Capital Program awards $224 million in grants for transit:
- San Diego gets some money for BRT, trolleys (KPBS)
- Metrolink, Metro, Antelope Valley Transit Authority, and OCTA get some too (MyNewsLA)
- The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit Authority also benefits (Press Democrat)
Consumer Watchdog issues report on gas price manipulation by CA refiners (LA Times)

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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