Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:15 AM PDT on August 17, 2016
- The “mystery” behind gas prices in California—Hint: it’s not just what we pay for cleaner air (SF Chronicle)
- Oil industry lobbyist authored Assemblymember’s demand for audit of climate change program (LA Times)
- Meanwhile there are real-life repercussions now for delay in cap-and-trade funding decisions (LA Times)
- Long Beach is one of six cities to join “tactical urbanism” workshop (Arch Paper)
- California State Transportation Agency awards $390M to public transit projects across state (CalSTA)
- Which includes $20M to extend BART to San Jose (KRON4)
- And $ for Metro to LAX, Orange County streetcar (LA Times)
- And for Sacramento’s streetcar too (Sacramento Business Journal)
- San Mateo finds local funding to study HOV lanes (San Mateo Daily Journal)
- On the limits of ride-hail as transit (Human Transit)
- We are under attack from climate change—and need to mobilize to fight back (New Republic)
- Report: California’s messed up land use is blocking ability to meet climate change goals (Bay Area Council)
- Developers need to get involved in local planning for infill (Ethan Elkind)
- Why affordable housing is so expensive: interactive tool explains all (Housing Finance)
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