Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:55 AM PDT on October 28, 2016
- Oakland’s strategic plan is a whole new vision for streets (SPUR)
- Berkeley’s revolutionary new bike plan (Systemic Failure)
- Dixon build a transportation center, but no transit came; now it’s available for lease (The Reporter)
- L.A. Metro board approves electric buses for Orange Line (The Source)
- L.A. Metro keeps getting proposals for how to spend Measure M (The Source)
- The Bicycle Story: Fighting rape culture and misogyny in the bike industry and culture at large
- Is “tactical urbanism” only for white people? (Albuquerque Journal)
- Bike facilities bring higher real estate prices (Fairfax Times)
- Density as one climate change strategy (Lisa Schweitzer)
- S.F. Chronicle updates its “guide to biking Bay Area bridges”
- Watch: Caltrans celebrates its 100th “News Flash” (YouTube)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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