Today’s Headlines

9:07 AM PDT on August 3, 2016

Cities are finally realizing they don't need so much damn parking (Grist)
Climate policies are good for business (Sacramento Bee)
California is first with a plan to meet federal clean power requirements (E&E)
The best thing you can do for the environment: Drive less (Mobility Lab)
Eye candy: Map of future rail and BRT in Los Angeles (Cal Urbanist)
The Uber con at the DNC (Medium)
Let a thousand Ubers bloom (City Observatory)
FHWA report: Achieve equity by addressing active transportation (Planetizen)
Gehry calls L.A. River “disgusting” (Hollywood Reporter)

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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