Today’s Headlines

8:52 AM PDT on September 16, 2015

Ventura considering a sales tax hike for as-yet-undefined transportation projects (LA Times)
San Jose affordable housing law may go to Supreme Court (San Jose Mercury News)
At capacity during peak hours, BART increases length and number of trains (Daily Cal)
High Speed Rail Authority holds workshops in Bay Area (CalWatchdog)
Sharing economy divides CA Democratic lawmakers (CalMatters)
Free transit experiment in Montana brings unexpected benefits (Mobility Lab)
New ways of counting pedestrians could change city planning (Next City)
What cities need to consider in anticipation of changing transportation trends (MobilityLab)
Is Uber's ultimate goal the privatization of local governance? (The Guardian)
The “prisoner's dilemma” of local-only planning (City Observatory)
Photo gallery: before and after photos of better street designs (CityLab)
A different story out of Syria: Damascus college students take to bicycles (Al-Fanar Media)

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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