Today’s Headlines

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)

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, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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