Today’s Headlines

• More on Deb Hubsmith (Marin Independent Journal)
• Orinda to add green paint to that lousy bike lane, but won’t consider removing the turn lane that crosses it (Oakland Tribune)
• Praise for new path in San Rafael that connects bikes to transit center and downtown (Marinscope)
• Study: Every dollar spent on Muni generates $2-3 for local economy (Examiner)
• New AC Transit general manager is from Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority  (San Jose Mercury News)
• Central Valley air officials, anticipating surge in traffic when school starts, urge drivers not to let their cars idle—or better yet, to walk (Modesto Bee)
• Jerry Brown urges agreement on transportation funding (LA Times) (Bakersfield Now)
• Big companies say that taxes are needed to fix transportation (Sacramento Business Journal)
• Small Business California endorses climate change bill (YubaNet)
  • but conservatives cry that without their polluting gas guzzlers the economy will collapse (Fox and Hounds)
  • and the oil industry puts out a bunch of hooha (LA Times)  (Union of Concerned Scientists)

• Feds threaten to withdraw grants to California transit agencies because of pension reform bill (Oakland Tribune)
• Hyperloop to break ground on a 5-mile test track in 2016 (NBC)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF