Today’s Headlines

9:07 AM PDT on August 19, 2016

Cheap gas ain't cheap (CityCommentary)
CA Senate, Assembly transportation leaders release compromise funding plan (LA Times)
Editorial: Passing climate change bill will benefit all Californians (Mercury News)
More on cap-and-trade expenditure plan from Senate:
- It will benefit communities (EDF)
- And create jobs (MarketWired)
TRIP report: Traffic, poor roads are costing you money. Left unsaid: So let's cut down on the driving (Equipment World)
- FOX gets it wrong, saying only “poor road conditions” cost you $3,000 a year
National parks need to make it easier to visit them without a car (Mobility Lab)
Affordable housing bill fails to find consensus, support; funding in limbo (SF Gate)(Merced Sun Star) (Sacramento Bee)

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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