Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PDT on August 23, 2016

Governor Brown signs law ending criminal penalties for youths who evade fares on transit (SF Gate)
Sacramento RT to raise money by selling naming rights for its stations (Sacramento Bee)
Disagreements heat up over mountain bike trails in East Bay Regional Parks (Mercury News)
Results of latest cap-and-trade auction expected today (Sacramento Bee)
Cap-and-trade bill calls for focus on local pollution (LA Times)
California's climate change policies prove that you can fight climate change and grow the economy (NBC News)
With climate change, mosquitoes are winning and salmon are losing (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Proposed federal congestion management rules meet with widespread opposition (Transportation for America)
Norway isn't exactly banning gas-powered cars, but it is making them harder to get and to use (Fast CoExist)

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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