Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:55 AM PDT on August 13, 2015
- More on Davis’s new protected intersection (Vox)
- California Bicycle Coalition’s take on CA’s special legislative session (CalBike)
- SF gets first glimpse of new Transbay Transit Center’s skin (SF Chronicle)
- Zero-emission fuel-cell buses making progress (Planning Report)
- Senator De Leon defends his climate change bill (Capital Public Radio)
- Bad ideas from the past: when the plan was to turn the LA River into a freeway (LA Times)
- If you’re going to visit in September, you’ll need this: Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia made a “Papal Visit” bike map (Philly Magazine)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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