Today’s Headlines

8:44 AM PST on February 1, 2017

UC Irvine to be first to replace all campus shuttles with zero emission vehicles (Inside EVs)
The self-driving car's bicycle problem (IEEE Spectrum)
Here's a bike made of recycled paper (Metro)
Drive-throughs in downtown: Stockton debates urban design (Stockton City Limits)
San Francisco continues efforts to reduce car trips from new development (Examiner)
Report: There's too much parking around transit stations (Transportation4America)
Vision Zero in the U.S.: Cities are learning what works (Governing)
Six states (including California) leading the way on clean energy (Clean Technica)
White House changes course on climate change, but California “stubbornly” forges on (LA Times)
Here are some of the environmental rules targeted by Congress (Washington Post)
Elaine Chao sworn in as U.S. Transportation Secretary (USA Today)

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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SBCTA Could Finally End One of the Country’s Worst Zombie Projects: The ONT Connector

“The ONT Connector is an inappropriate investment. Ridership capacity and public transportation utility do not support spending billions of dollars for it. Scrapping the project is the right decision. Electric rail to ONT is the appropriate decision,” writes Kevin Dedicatoria, The Transit Coalition, Community Consultant.