Today’s Headlines

9:04 AM PDT on September 11, 2015

Again: special session on transportation will not reach a deal this week (KQED)(San Luis Obispo Tribune)
 Things to consider in the special session (NRDC)
Business groups still support the idea of raising taxes for transportation (KPCC)
- ...saying: “If you can't move people and goods.....you can't do business” (Beyond Chron)
S.B. 32, successor bill to Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, withdrawn until next year (LA Times)
Pundits ponder the meaning of climate change “losses” in Sacramento (Bloomberg)
The legislature is “backsliding” on climate change (LA Times)
Senator Frazier focuses on trucking: forum next week in San Bernardino (Fontana Herald)
LA Metro pursues bill that would allow it to partner with private companies (Lexology)
Lawsuit filed against LA's Mobility Plan 2035 (LA Weekly)
Tech shuttles may become permanent part of transit in SF (SF Examiner)
Do radar signs make people stop speeding? (Plan Philly)

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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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