Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PDT on October 20, 2016

Making my city more bike friendly for $0 (Strong Towns)
What state affordable housing funds will bring to Oakland (East Bay Times)
Richmond activist takes on big oil (East Bay Times)
Air Resources Board meets in Fresno to consider cap-and-trade's future (Fresno Bee)
Driverless car makers decry “unnecessary regulations” at CA DMV hearing (LA Times)
Criminal background checks mandatory for TNC drivers starting January 1 (Littler)
Oakland's Measure KK seeks local money to fix streets (Oakland North) (Streetsblog SF)
Why tunnel boring machines are named after women (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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