Today’s Headlines

4:13 PM PST on December 8, 2016

How Sacramento can rethink transportation (Sacramento Bee)
Do we really want funding for bicycle projects? (Streets.mn)
Fatalities in the “war on cars” are never in cars (The Stranger)
Finally: UPS debuts delivery by bike....in Portland (OregonLive)
Resiliency vs sustainability in transportation (MikeOnTraffic)
San Diego fast-tracked affordable housing that was anything but affordable (San Diego Union Tribune)
Blame the housing crisis for the Ghost Ship fire (Slate)
Not so fast: are suburbs really that popular? (City Commentary)
The next class of Democratic political leaders is training in California (NY Times)
Three reasons Trump doesn't matter to energy policy (Forbes)
- Except there's that small matter of his EPA nominee (NY 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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