Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:48 AM PDT on July 13, 2016
- Electric bikes are better than driving (TreeHugger)
- Plans forming for Bakersfield high speed rail station (Bakersfield.com)
- SCAG is shocked: No federal grants for freight projects (LA Daily News)
- Air Resources Board releases plan for future of cap and trade (LA Times)
- California finds potential partners for cap and trade (Sacramento Bee)
- Oil lobby’s claims about climate change policies were wrong (NRDC)
- Clueless article confuses Caltrans with gas tax authority, ascribes road charge test to bloated, inefficient bureaucracy (Breitbart)
- The value of value capture (City Observatory)
- Pokemon GO is causing waves:
- It’s everything that’s wrong with late capitalism (Vox)
- It’s helping people discover their cities (Fast)
- It requires these etiquette tips (Streets.mn)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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