Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
9:20 AM PDT on October 2, 2015
- Why USC should support transit use (Lisa Schweitzer)
- The hidden inequality of who dies in car crashes (The Washington Post)
- In Tucson, a bicyclist is killed. So the sheriff’s department offers safety classes—for bike riders, not drivers (Tucson News Now)
- ICYMI: BART will reward riders who take the train off peak hours (SF Bay)
- San Mateo allocates $108m towards highway projects (San Mateo Daily Journal)
- Developers close escrow on Sacramento railyard (Sacramento Business Journal)
- LA school district beats Oakland to it, building low-cost housing for employees on its unused land (The Guardian)
- CA passes bill that allows SF to fund $500 million in affordable housing (San Francisco Business Times)
- US EPA passes stronger air pollution regulations (San Jose Mercury News)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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