Today’s Headlines

8:31 AM PDT on October 3, 2016

Solano County board supports state transportation funding bill (Daily Republic)
Fresno mayoral candidates to debate at “Walk and Roll” (Fresno Bee)
Ride Week in Ventura County means take transit, carpool, ride a bike—don't drive solo (Ventura County Star) (Pacific Coat Business Times)
Residents call on S.F. to fix dangerous bike conditions (Hoodline)
L.A., Santa Monica pedestrian scrambles are working pretty well (Planetizen)
At new Kings Arena opening in Sacramento, light rail was jammed, parking lots only one-third full (Sacramento Bee)
Twelve-foot lanes are a disaster for safety (CityLab)
California governor signs bill allowing testing of self-driving cars (Daily Mail)
It's official: Land use regulations increase housing costs (Forbes)
Bike thief caught by cowboy with rope skills (CBS News)
Police in Quebec are riding the bus to catch text drivers (CBC News)

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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