Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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- These planning “rules” are outdated and ought to be replaced (City Observatory)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)
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