Today’s Headlines
- BART’s bus bridge to San Francisco over the weekend worked fine (SF Gate)
- Sacramento’s bait bike program is “about more than bikes” (Sacramento Bee)
- Huffington Post weighs in on Westwood bike lanes (Huffington Post)
- Bay Area’s disjointed public transit system needs to be better connected (New York Times)
- Humboldt and Del Norte county residents form Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities, say: fix it first, then focus on sustainable transportation projects–and forget about the road widenings (Times-Standard)
- Los Banos doesn’t like Caltrans plan that would remove crosswalks, restrict turns on Highway 152 (Los Banos Enterprise)
- Transportation bill passed by US Senate incorporates Complete Streets, increases mass transit spending, encourages TOD (Grist)
- CityLab discusses San Francisco’s transit fee for developers (CityLab)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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