Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:49 AM PDT on October 27, 2016
- Keeping track of close calls that don’t cause crashes (VeloNews)
- The critical role of down-ballot races in state transportation funding (Planetizen)
- Fairness and justice in bicycle planning (Momentum)
- Listen: Ethan Elkind interviews the head of high speed rail (KALW)
- Fresno can be a model for climate change projects (Capitol Weekly)
- New York considers letting bike riders follow pedestrian signals—which they’re already doing anyway (Village Voice)
- Electric buses and trucks can help the environment and poor communities (Alternet)
- Technology is not the vision: What do we want our future transportation system to be? (TheSource)
- There’s no housing crisis in American if you are a car (TreeHugger)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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