Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:34 AM PDT on July 29, 2015
- Public forum in Santa Monica today on transportation issues (Santa Monica Daily Press)
- One year in, ridership on BART’s Oakland airport connector is not exactly booming (Systemic Failure)
- In Santa Cruz, removing train tracks would hurt rail trail (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- Caltrans, are you listening? Study confirms: narrower lanes are safer than wide lanes. (State Smart Transportation Initiative)
- How to undermine Bus Rapid Transit: don’t give it a dedicated lane (Voice of San Diego)
- Some in Palmdale would welcome high speed rail (Market Place)
- Here’s one way to deal with a car in the bike lane: lift it out of the way (Bleacher Report)
- We are oblivious to traffic deaths (Walking the Walk)
- San Francisco neighborhood associations formulate a policy to boost affordable housing (Hoodline)
- Why housing costs so much (hint: it’s the parking) (The Stranger)
- Motor City is becoming Bike City (Detroit Free Press)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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