Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PDT on June 14, 2016

Seven “Smart City” finalist made their pitch to the DOT (CityLab)
UC Berkeley weighs in on San Francisco's bid for Smart City grant (Daily Californian)
Bay Area suburban residents look to rent control (New York Times)
Sacramento's now-empty railyards to become a dense “city within a city” (Sacramento Bee)
As power plants get cleaner, transportation contributes a bigger portion of greenhouse gases (Vox)
LA Times opines that cap-and-trade will “collapse”
Cities can't ignore freight (Regional Plan Association)
Governor Brown's plan would increase affordable housing (Sacramento Bee)
It's time for Oakland to grow (CityLab)
Sprawl's effect on well-being (City Commentary)
How to build a bicycling culture...in Singapore (Channel News Asia)

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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