Today’s Headlines

8:24 AM PDT on September 29, 2015

Bakersfield's HSR location isn't the best for economic development (Bakersfield Californian)
San Marcos could teach San Diego about smart growth (Voice of San Diego)
Clueless: CHP blames three-foot-law instead of careless driver for bicycle rider's death (Cyclelicious) (Systemic Failure)
In response to VW's deception, diesel emissions testing in California will change (Capital Public Radio)
Estimating the death toll and health effects of VW's lies (NY Times)
Google will measure street-level air pollution in California (CityLab)
Long Beach weighs in on US DOT's Beyond Traffic report (Long Beach Post)
Does “walkability” really increase real estate values? (Planetizen)
Cities can't win (The New Yorker)

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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