Today’s Headlines

8:29 AM PDT on March 24, 2016

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

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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