Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:41 AM PDT on August 12, 2015
- Turlock planning commission approves Active Transportation Plan; city council to weigh in soon (Turlock Journal)
- LA city council approves Mobility Plan 2035, a huge policy shift towards active transportation, transit, Vision Zero (Streetsblog) (LA Times) (Patch)
- Can LA become the new Portland? (Oregon Live) Or should Portland learn from LA? (BikePortland)
- CA cities and counties have suggestions for funding road repairs (LA Times)
- Business, union groups back “reasonable” increases in gas and diesel sales taxes (Sacramento Business Journal)
- CA transportation funding discussions should include regional governance issues (California Economic Summit)
- New law allows BART to buy power from renewable sources (The Transit Wire)
- What will “new” LA River look like? (LA Times)
- More about new restrictions on cars on Market Street in SF (Planetizen)
- Bill Fulton says cities have tons of data, now they need everyone’s help to make sense of it all (Urban Edge)
- US cities are just afraid to make driving unappealing (CityLab)
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