Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:30 AM PDT on September 10, 2015
- California’s special legislative session on transportation will not reach a deal this week (Sacramento Bee) (LA Times)
- Gas reduction goal removed from S.B. 350 (plus see Streetsblog coverage) (San Jose Mercury News) (TransForm)
- Berkeley publishes online bike parking map (Contra Costa Times)
- LA Metro fast-tracks two rail projects so they can be completed before Olympics (LA Times)
- Punk and the birth of the neoliberal city (Boom California)
- What if we labeled unwalkable cities like we do cigarettes? (Transportation for America)
- Number of carpool cheaters rises dramatically (San Jose Mercury News)
- Study: high-crime neighborhoods encourage driving (Mineta Institute)
- What American can learn from Europe’s high-speed rail (Wired)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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