Today’s Headlines

8:18 AM PDT on September 17, 2015

Sacramento identifies downtown alleys as potential walkable corridors (Sacramento Business Journal)
Vision Zero is increasing pedestrian safety (Next City)
California Transportation Commission to hold town hall in Weaverville on Friday (Trinity Journal)
High Speed Rail Authority to hold workshop in Morgan Hill on Sept 23 (Morgan Hill Times)
People who work near transit are more likely to use transit (CityLab)
Another reason to ditch your car: bicycles can be the path to early retirement (Daily Finance)
A neighborhood in Nashville pledges to go car-free for a week (Nashville Business Journal)
Video: Hyperloop is serious about itself (CBS)
Video: giant insect puppet bicycles (PBS)

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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