Today’s Headlines

9:15 AM PST on February 8, 2016

Oil companies gave big money to Assemblymembers who opposed legislation to reduce gas use (San Jose Mercury News)
How much money candidates are collecting, and from whom (Sacramento Bee)
Ventura County urged to place transportation sales tax measure on ballot (VC Star)
Mendocino, having spent most of its state transportation funds on Willits bypass, feels the pinch on local transportation projects (Willits News)
Riverside: local leaders demand funding to fix roads (KESQ) (Valley News)
Researchers respond to LA Times story about declining Metro ridership (METRANS blog)
Streetcar in Santa Ana could change everything (OC Register)
A year later, and neighbors of Exide plant are still waiting for cleanup (LA Times)
Post-redevelopment survey of developers: analysis of results (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)

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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