Today’s Headlines

8:58 AM PDT on October 29, 2015

Caltrans launches process to write statewide bike and pedestrian plan (Lake County News)
Sacramento Regional Transit bans sleeping and shoeless, bare-chested passengers, but attempt to ban smelly people failed (International Business Times)
New law clears path for LA transportation sales tax measure (Land Line Magazine)
San Francisco lays blueprint for future subways (SFBay)
Oakland proposes sweeping parking plan (East Bay Express)
Berkeley proposal to lessen parking requirements and streamline development for affordable housing met with enthusiasm (Berkeleyside)
San Fernando Valley says: we need more transit investment here (LA Daily News) Federal DOT releases report on pedestrian, bicycle safety (Fast Lane)
- and announces new TIGER grants (Fast Lane)
The Bicycle Story podcast: How bikes changed a young man's life (The Bicycle Story)
Paper cutouts riff on iconic landmarks (CityLab)

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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