Today’s Headlines

8:51 AM PST on February 3, 2017

BART, others, please note: Ferries will install bike escalators on their boats (Marin Independent Journal)
Residential tower approved next to MacArthur BART station (East Bay Express)
Bill would add social cost of greenhouse gas emissions to contract bids (Mercury News)
What CARB's cap-and-trade scoping plan contains (Mondaq)
Legal arguments heard on cap-and-trade (JDSupra)
UC Davis researchers join effort to archive climate data (Sacramento Bee)
CA Assemblymember introduces bill to streamline CEQA for road projects (Highland News)
Maybe better maps would get more people on bikes (CityLab)
Is bike-sharing contagious? (Transportist)
HOT lane study shows that maybe people don't really care that much about the time it takes to travel (City Commentary)
These planning “rules” are outdated and ought to be replaced (City Observatory)
In Texas, governor moves to punish sanctuary cities (Al Jazeera)

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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