Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
9:04 AM PDT on October 24, 2016
- California Transportation Commission allocates $224 million to projects statewide, including:
- Seaside: Broadway Ave road diet (Monterey Herald)
- Highway 17 wildlife crossing in Santa Cruz County (IndyBay)
- Central Coast projects (EdHat)
- Oakland Bay Bridge bike path opens to island (SF Gate)
- Redwood City to talk affordable housing, transportation (Patch)
- In Fresno this year, Fourteen people have been killed by car drivers while walking (Your Central Valley)
- For many California cities, a safe route to school just means a sidewalk (The Californian)
- How SANDAG undermines transit, environmental, and social goals (San Diego UrbDeZine)
- Why so many local transportation sales tax measures? (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
- Mobility 21 Summit: Seems to be all about traffic congestion (Business Wire)
- An interview with Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty (ITS International)
- South Coast AQMD looks hard at cap and trade (Press Enterprise)
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