Today’s Headlines

8:52 AM PDT on June 23, 2016

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California's cap-and-trade program is working (LA Times)
- And that last auction does not signify its collapse (Sacramento Bee)
Last-minute bill would let HSR money go towards electrification of Caltrain, as originally planned (Sacramento Bee)
Latest work on HSR: The Fresno trench (High Speed Rail Authority)
Would LA's sales tax measure ease traffic? (KPCC)
San Francisco lost the “Smart City” grant (SF Examiner)
UC Berkeley study finds spending on public health has very high return on investment (Daily Californian)
Study: Too many Californians are driving while on the phone (Action News Now)
See Jane Go: Female-only ride-share service to launch in Orange County (LAist)
Tonight: BART board gets update on bike plan progress (BART)
After Uber and Lyft left Austin, no biggie (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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