Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:19 AM PDT on August 26, 2015
- Orange County streetcar line moves forward (OC Register)
- Why we support a bike yield law (San Francisco Bicycle Coalition)
- Governor Brown attacks oil companies for producing a “highly destructive” product (LA Times)
- CA Senate president Kevin de Leon says he will amend climate change bill to add oversight of Air Resources Board (Sacramento Bee)
- Cap-and-trade money begins showing up in projects statewide (EE News)
- Report: Analysis of California transportation policies (PR Newswire)
- In Ireland, 25-year plan will give bikes “equal priority” (Northern Ireland News Letter)
- But in Australia, one man is determined to remove Sydney’s protected bike lanes (Guardian)
- A bit of history: when bikes weren’t just something on the side (All Over Albany)
- Paris to go car-free for an entire day in September (Inhabit)
- What can happen when cars are removed from streets (Curbed)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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