Today’s Headlines

8:52 AM PDT on July 22, 2015

Hermosa Beach will rely on a computer program to help it go carbon-neutral (Daily Breeze)
New Metro CEO asks: What do you want from Southern California's mass transit system? (Daily News)
CA bill to ban tolls on bridges bogs down (Marin Independent Journal)
Fight over bike lane in Westwood: same old objections, excuses (LA Times)
Infographic: Historic housing trends in Santa Monica (Santa Monica Next)
Strategic Growth Council goes on listening tour to hear what went right, wrong in first year of Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program (California Planning & Development Report) (MoveLA)
League of CA Cities adopts resolution urging governor to take action on transportation funding (CA League of Cities)
US Senate reaches preliminary agreement on six-year transportation bill (Wall Street Journal)
Governor Brown at the Vatican Climate Summit (KPCC)
How Istanbul improved air quality by putting pedestrians first (The City Fix)

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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