Today’s Headlines
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7:29 AM PST on January 19, 2017
- TODAY: California Bicycle Coalition hosts webinar on electric bike-share (Bicycle Retailer)
- L.A. gets its first all-electric DASH buses (Mass Transit)
- S.F. threatens legal action against rogue bike-share company (Examiner) (SFist)
- Assemblymembers seek rural representation on California Transportation Commission (Sierra Sun Times)
- CalEnviroScreen, CA’s tool for defining disadvantaged communities, gets an update (Safe Routes to School)
- Developer hopes to get permission to build tiny prefab houses for the homeless in Berkeley and beyond (Berkeleyside)
- Meet L.A. County’s first regional sustainability chief (The Planning Report)
- L.A. isn’t overdeveloped, it’s in a slump (LA Times)
- This is what happens when you cut funding (Archinect)
- Op-Ed: The state must fund better roads NOW, say labor and construction industry reps (Sacramento Bee)
- BART will guarantee parking spots for carpoolers with new app (East Bay Times)
- France adopts helmet law for kids (Systemic Failure)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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