Today’s Headlines
- California Transportation Commission appoints new executive director (Santa Monica Mirror)
- Solano County Transit buys two electric buses (Business Wire)
- Central Valley leaders bemoan lack of highway funding (but don’t call for raising the gas tax) (Fresno Bee)
- Feds offer assistance to states trying to figure out an alternative to the gas tax (Gov Tech)
- New transportation data available from California’s open data portal project (Techwire)
- L.A. suburbs don’t like the sales tax measure plan (LA Weekly)
- Clock is ticking on parking investments (City Observatory)
- Everyone’s pretty jealous of Seattle’s “Bike Batman” (CityLab)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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