Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PDT on September 2, 2016

Welcome to September, "California Pedestrian Awareness Month" (Business Wire)
BART tries paying riders to avoid peak times (East Bay Times)
SMART urged to provide more bike parking (Marin Independent Journal)
Berkeley unveils city bike plan (Daily Californian)
Highway art, state budget, California Transportation Plan 2040: Caltrans latest Mile Marker is out (Caltrans)
Recap of the struggle to extend greenhouse gas emissions targets (CalMatters)
California's ambitious new climate commitments follow ten years of success (EDF)
CA legislative wins and losses (LA Times)

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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