Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PST on December 3, 2015

The dream of a cross-border bike lane (Voice of San Diego)
Committee formed to avoid lawsuit on bike path along SMART train (Marin Independent Journal)
Redwood City to adopt affordable housing fee (San Mateo Daily Journal)
More on Caltrans' “new thinking” on road expansion/induced demand (Gov Tech)
Getting public involvement in planning is a lot harder than you think (California Planning and Development Report)
California is a model for dealing with climate change but still has plenty of work to do at home (Cal Matters)
The good, the bad, and the ugly in the new federal transportation bill (T4 America)
How cycling could help the Paris climate talks change the world (Guardian)
Study finds global bike ownership declining (Medical Express)
Rethinking terms transportation planners use all the time (Planetizen)
Living near transit might be good for your mental health (CityLab)
Awesome fake ads in Paris: “VW: We're sorry we got caught" (Good)

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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