Today’s Headlines

8:33 AM PDT on October 21, 2015

Caltrans/CTC forum in Bay Area tomorrow: Transportation needs and how to fund them (Contra Costa Times)
Who's funding the so-called “moderate Democrats” in California (Sacramento Bee)
California shuts down 33 oilfield wells that are threatening the water supply (Bakersfield Now)
Oakland adopts roadmap to promote housing equity (Rooflines)
San Francisco's idea to let bicyclists treat stop signs as yield signs (NY Times)
How NIMBYs lower your paycheck (Vox)
Cards Against Urbanity is a big hit (Next City)
How the Complete Streets movement is changing our roads (Governing)

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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