Today’s Headlines

9:11 AM PDT on September 14, 2015

Screen shot 2015-09-13 at 3.44.38 PM — A cartoon explains the legislative process. Image: KQED

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

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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