Today’s Headlines

9:02 AM PDT on October 19, 2015

We're in trouble this winter, and here's a preview (NY Times) (Guardian)(ABC News)
Not everyone is stuck in traffic: total amount of time spent traveling, per capita, has decreased in U.S. (Transportationist)
Cell phone data is tracking traffic (Fortune)
Chinese companies readying bids for work on CA high speed rail (Business Insider)
- as does CA train builder Siemens (Sacramento Bee)
But Palo Alto says: whoa, there, young fella (CA High Speed Rail Blog)
Sacramento is still struggling to find an agreement on transportation funding (LA Times)
House proposes six-year federal transportation bill, mostly to highways (The Hill)
All the unintended consequences of less driving by millenials (Salon)
Lawmakers seek investigation of Chevron's failure to disclose climate change data(LA Times)
Oakland proposes eliminating parking requirements for downtown developments (East Bay Express)
Berkeley surveys public for ideas on safety and traffic flow in downtown (InsideBayArea)

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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