Today’s Headlines

Today is National Bike to Work Day—have a great ride!

By Melanie Curry

8:26 AM PDT on May 19, 2016

Today is National Bike to Work Day—have a great ride!

High speed rail gets a four-year delay (Politico) (LA Times)
- …and opponents jump at the chance to raise heck (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
Director of Caltrans leads annual bike tour to promote, discuss bicycling for transportation (Mass Transit)
Placer County “sidewalks to nowhere” are endangering people walking (Sacramento Bee)
No, no, no, no, and no: Google wants its self-driving cars to grab any pedestrians it hits (Mercury News)
Never mind: San Diego’s climate change plan is legally enforceable, after all (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Five cities that are reducing GHGs while achieving social and economic development (The City Fix)
San Francisco landlord and Uber will pay residents $100 to be car-free (thus reducing parking requirements/expenses for landlord) (The Verge)
New issue of Access Magazine: Energy use in electric vehicles, airport traffic congestion, cars and economic opportunity, running to work, and more (Access)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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