Today’s Headlines

8:51 AM PST on February 6, 2017

SCAG announces its list of regional active transportation projects (Long Beach Post)
- with Orange County in the mix (OC Register)
- and San Bernardino too (Inland Empire)
Coachella Valley considers its own funding for bike and pedestrian infrastructure (Desert Sun)
Mountain bikers say they are angry at slow pace of trail creation in Marin (Marin Independent Journal)
Electric school buses are on their way to California (NBC)
Lodi City Council discusses proposals to raise gas taxes (Lodi News)
Nevada County officials urge unspecified “long-term transportation funding reform”—but dare not say “raise gas taxes”? (The Union)

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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