Today’s Headlines
- Lawmakers send governor scaled-back climate change bill (Sacramento Bee)
- Play-by-play of the last day of the California legislative session (LA Times)
- ...with photos (LA Times)
- Money and the fight to pass S.B. 350 (Sacramento Bee)
- A cartoon explanation of the last-minute gut-and-amend process; see image at right (KQED)
- California High Speed Rail Authority's proposes a concrete “nightmare” in Bakersfield (Systemic Failure)
- Motor voter registration passes (LA Times)
- The zeal of Jerry Brown (podcast) (KQED)
- San Diego's North Park pretends it's bike-friendly, but it's not (San Diego Free Press)
- Video: riding a bike at night in San Diego (Vimeo)
- Chairbombing is a thing (CityLab)
- More explanations of road diets (Urban Edge)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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