Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:45 AM PDT on June 17, 2016
- Crime on SF Muni drops, but not enough to meet goals (SF Examiner)
- Youth-led bike repair shop opens in East Oakland (Mercury News)
- Lawsuit filed against Riverside freeway expansion (Center for Biological Diversity)
- Fresno is going to get BRT: the “Q” (ScienceBlog)
- Sacramento needs to copy LA’s transit success (Sacramento Bee)
- Too many lives are lost on US roads (AARP)
- Details on Sacramento Railyards project (Sacramento Bee)
- New York state sets greenhouse gas emission goal of zero by 2050 (Inside Climate News)
- Poor people pay for parking even when they don’t have a car to park (Washington Post)
- Five myths about gentrification (Washington Post)
- LOL from The Onion: “There is beauty in decay,” says highway official in charge of nation’s infrastructure
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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