Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
7:39 AM PST on February 12, 2016
- Antelope Valley Transit Authority will replace its entire fleet with electric buses (Daily Journal)
- BART to sharply raise parking fees for sports, special events at Coliseum (Oakland Tribune)
- U.S. DOT “overwhelmed” by applications to its Smart City Challenge (MobilityLab)
- What Obama’s budget proposal could do for biking (People for Bikes)
- A first look at San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority’s Office of Innovation (Medium)
- The bicycle as a social justice tool (Planetizen)
- Supreme Court ruling puts climate change policies in limbo—but not in California (Governing)
- Older Americans are also ditching their cars (NPR)
- Report: Transit tax incentive doesn’t make up for costs of parking subsidies (Transit Center)
- Yes, railroads induce sprawl (Itinerant Urbanist)
- Bay Area’s wetlands restoration projects are working (CityLab)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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