Today’s Headlines

8:01 AM PST on January 21, 2016

State senate to hold oversight hearings on high speed rail (LA Times)
Emerging best practice: Metro identifies active transportation investment needs (Investing in Place)
OPR issues its long-awaited update to CEQA guidelines (California Planning & Development Report)
New tool helps planners make stronger case for transit improvements (Next City)
Bay Area economy booms, with jobs far outpacing housing (SPUR)
BART will replace decoy security cameras with real ones (SF Gate)
State senator thinks the fine for turning right without stopping is excessive (SF Gate)
NIMBYs are causing housing shortages (Planetizen)
New study finds that car drivers who ride bikes are more likely to support bike infrastructure (Bike Biz)
Newbury Medal for children's lit goes to transit-themed “Last Stop on Market Street” (KPBS)

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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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