Today’s Headlines

8:36 AM PDT on July 21, 2015

Orange County bus ridership numbers are down, and OCTA needs to fix a few things (Orange County Register)
AC Transit studying major service changes in Alameda County (San Jose Mercury News)
San Jose VTA working on long-range transportation plan (San Jose Mercury News)
Survey shows support for transportation sales tax in San Jose (San Jose Mercury News)
California Public Utilities Commission cracking down on transportation startups (Business Insider)
Transit groups push for more funding in federal transportation bill (The Hill)
Cities with physically active residents: more productive, healthier (The Guardian)

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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