Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
9:03 AM PDT on October 14, 2015
- Pedestrians pay a high price for being poor (Sacramento Bee)
- Will USC employees drive more without a transit pass subsidy? (LA Times)
- Oakland considers road diet on Grand Avenue (East Bay Express)
- Governor signs bill that will automatically register Californians to vote when they apply for drivers licenses (LA Times)
- and a bill allowing electric skateboards (Engadget) (Oakdale Leader)
- Ten bills that will change life in CA, according to the Orange County Register
- Explaining the Bay Bridge cost overruns (CityLab)
- The housing shortage has people in Oakland living in boxes, of varying sizes (NY Times)
- New HAWK pedestrian traffic signal causing excitement in San Jose (San Jose Mercury News)
- Why we need to count bicyclists right (Santa Barbara Independent)
- Fixing America’s roads would pay for itself (Washington Post)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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