Today’s Headlines

6:00 AM PDT on July 31, 2015

LA's plan to bring car-share to the poor (CityLab)
Analyzing Fresno's drop in bus ridership (Stop and Move)
Santa Monica will begin testing bike share in August (Santa Monica Lookout)
Monterey considering local transportation sales tax (Monterey County Weekly)
DMV attempts a crackdown on misuse of disability placards (LA Times)
Congress approves stopgap bill for highway funding (LA Times)
Eco-friendly housing being developed in Central Valley (NPR)
BMW has a plan to prevent its electric cars from overwhelming the power grid (CityLab)

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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