Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

By Melanie Curry

8:58 AM PDT on August 5, 2015

Critics: San Diego’s bike-share system set up for tourists, competes with existing bike rentals, instead of serving residents (San Diego Union Tribune)
LA Metro creates Office of Extraordinary Innovation (The Source)
Central Valley Air quality has best July in 20 years (Fresno Bee)
Department of road widenings:
- Money flows but traffic slows anyway on the 91 freeway (LA Times)
- Grass Valley holds a public meeting to discuss widening Highway 49 (The Union)
Tokyo has pretty much eliminated traffic deaths with compact development, transit, bike lanes (Tech Insider)
Stop bashing bike racks for LEED certification, again (TreeHugger)
Whose job is it to make cities smarter? (The Guardian)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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