Today’s Headlines

6:31 AM PST on January 26, 2016

In 2015, U.S. drivers broke the record for vehicle miles traveled (Fast Lane)
It's too bad electric scooters are so lame; they might be the future (Wired)
Cap-and-trade is opening the door for timber companies to clear-cut California forests (East Bay Express)
Cutting transportation money will affect jobs and cause delays (Aggregates Manager)
Carbon capture is not working (KQED)
San Francisco developer fights transit impact fee (SocketSite)
Madrid bans cars, plans plants (Gizmodo)
No new roads (Strong Towns)
Big carrots for climate resilience (Huffington Post)
We are building children out of cities (Rooflines)

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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