Today’s Headlines

• Sonoma County employers working out ways to connect employees with coming SMART train (Petaluma360)
• Bay Area welcomes once-shunned mountain bikers (Mercury News)
• Cities are unnecessarily endangering bicyclists (Slate)
• Electric bikes can help California meet emission goals (Next City)
• Bakersfield road widening project is backwards, out of date, “puts cars over people” (Courthouse News)
• Failing to secure state funds, San Mateo turns to feds for Highway 101 widening project (San Mateo Daily Journal)
• Election Cycle: Bicyclist covers both presidential conventions (ABC)
• At the Republican convention, the “most up-to-date” way to patrol: cops on bikes (Wall Street Journal)
• Auto industry can do it if regulations demand it: fuel efficiency, innovation are increasing quickly in new vehicles (Fast Lane)
• We need more than cap and trade (Huffington Post)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF