Today’s Headlines

9:03 AM PDT on August 26, 2016

California passes climate change bills (NRDC)
Will cap and trade die in California? (Ethan Elkind)
San Francisco to break ground on its first protected intersection (SFMTA)
Bay Bridge bike path connection to Yerba Buena Island won't be ready until October (CBS Local)
Bit 'o history: A bike protest in San Francisco circa 1972 (SF Chronicle)
More driving, more dying in 2016 (City Commentary)
Sharp rise in 2016 traffic fatalities should renew calls for safer streets (TSTC)
A cracked bike helmet didn't save your life (Systemic Failure)
Portland's bike-share success is a lesson in how to do it right (BikePortland)
A primer on politics in Sacramento (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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