Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:35 AM PDT on October 17, 2016
- Palo Alto’s bike-share will have “smart bikes” (GovTech)
- Ready for comments: a 17-mile bike trail connection San Gabriel and Rio Hondo rivers (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
- Transportation sales tax measures: comparing L.A.’s to San Diego’s (KPBS)
- Ventura County’s sales tax measure garners support from labor (Ventura County Star)
- Competing visions of the future of transit show up in BART board race (New America Media)
- Transit is safer than driving, and Monterey-Salinas Transit is safest (The Californian)
- What your vote might mean for transportation (Daily News)
- Cities are starting to eliminate excess parking (Curbed)
- Uber exploits a tax loophole (Business Insider)
- Hey, Leo: LA’s anti-density movement is bad for the environment (Curbed LA)
- Why climate change divides us (Christian Science Monitor)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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