Today’s Headlines

8:57 AM PDT on November 2, 2016

The ripple effect of California's cap and trade (Ecosystem Marketplace)
To cut driving, develop more densely in downtowns (CP&DR)
At noon today, watch Bay Bridge dismantling live on YouTube—slow, but live
Coachella may get $24.3 million for bike path—reporter asks locals: would you even use this thing? (Desert Sun)
Questions arise about safety precautions: site of fatal bus crash was a work zone (ABC News)
Does it even make sense to compare rail in L.A. with rail in S.F.? (Ethan Elkind)
Cycling can save lives, says the newspaper that slams bikeways (BikeBiz)
Empty lots have lots of potential (Berkeley News)
Book review: Rad women who shaped cities (CityLab)
Some of the best Halloween transportation costumes of 2016—scary sharrows! (Streetfilms)

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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