Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:21 AM PDT on May 3, 2016
- A hundred years ago, there was an electric train from Sacramento to San Francisco (Daily Republic)
- San Diego’s transportation plan is a failure of imagination (San Diego Free Press)
- #Caltrain Sucks, says Caltrain tweet, with irony (SF Gate)
- Gilroy mayor weighs in on the future of transportation in the Silicon Valley (Gilroy Dispatch)
- Senate votes to extend closure of Aliso Canyon gas storage facility (KPCC)
- Bike-share operator Motivate is buying Detroit-made bikes (Co.Exist)
- Too much parking is a big urban problem (Brown Political Review)
- Study: Adding low-income housing to poor neighborhoods lowers crime, boosts property values (Vox)
- The best time to break your car habit is when you move to a new home (CityLab)
- To “age in place,” you need to be somewhere that’s easy to live without driving (NY Times)
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