Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:25 AM PDT on July 30, 2015
- City of Cupertino will host a forum on alternative transportation next week (San Jose Mercury News)
- East Oakland residents march to demand equal treatment for street cleanup, maintenance (Inside Bay Area)
- Animated maps of Bay Area commutes: measuring the dispersal between work and home (CityMetric)
- Architecture critic says the widened 405 freeway is ugly (LA Times)
- Republicans propose cutting 3500 full-time Caltrans staff to save money; would replace them with contract workers, er, consultants (Sacramento Bee)
- What I learned as an Uber driver: it’s hard for people to get around (Washington Post)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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