Today’s Headlines

8:53 AM PDT on September 3, 2015

Jerry Brown needs to step up and support California's climate change bills (East Bay Express)
Why a car-centric transportation plan would be folly for LA (LA Times)
Transit is key to both climate change and transportation (Sacramento Bee)
Downtown Oakland is still building for cars (East Bay Express)
Kingsburg applies for grants to build bike and walk trails (Handford Sentinel)
Study says injury rates of bicycle riders, especially older than 45, has gone up—maybe because there are more people on bikes? (NPR) (SF Gate)
The problem with WalkScore (Better Cities)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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