Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:34 AM PDT on October 20, 2015
- San Francisco’s Market Street is about to get a raised bike lane (KQED) (ABC)
- Oakland and Richmond to receive $15 million for bike and ped projects (East Bay Express)
- New planning paradigms are hard to introduce in San Joaquin Valley (CityLab)
- Mobility plan nudges LA towards new transportation modes (California Planning & Development Report)
- Study: UCLA finds that air quality improves during CicLAvia (LAist)
- The case of the worst-ranked rail station in California (Voice of San Diego)
- Tech shuttles and a tourist area that has trouble recruiting employees because there’s little transit (Examiner)
- Memo to cities: most bicycle riders aren’t urban hipsters (Urban Edge)
- America’s car obsession won’t be diminished by millenials alone (The Transport Politic)
- CA legislative Transportation Special Session tries again (Sacramento Bee)
- There’s a new tool for estimating transit’s effect on VMT and emissions (State Smart Transportation Initiative)
- Report: Wetlands in SF Bay need to be restored and protected against sea level rise (Oakland Tribune)
- Oslo considers banning cars from city center (The Guardian)
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