Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PST on February 19, 2016

High speed rail to focus on route to San Jose first, not L.A. (San Jose Mercury News)
Valley farmers and others oppose initiative to use HSR money for water projects (Fresno Bee)
High speed rail faces challenges (Monterey Herald)
What a merger of the Bay Area's two regional agencies could mean (KQED)
The Bay Area's coming freeway revolution (Planetizen)
Modesto area struggles to decide which road projects to finish or abandon (Modesto Bee)
Interview with Vince Bertoni, L.A.'s new head of City Planning (The Planning Report)
Volunteer to help CA figure out how to replace the gas tax (Fox and Hounds)
Can startups convince Americans to carpool? (Bloomberg)
Smartphones don't kill pedestrians, cars do (Gizmodo)

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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