Today’s Headlines

• 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