Today’s Headlines

8:02 AM PST on February 9, 2017

CA leaders agree on infrastructure priorities, and the Governor calls for April deadline on funding plan (LA Times)
- The list includes transit, high-speed rail (Business Journals)
Crunching the numbers of CA climate spending (LA Times)
State seeks applications for zero-emission school buses (NGT News)
GOP leaders are pushing a federal carbon tax (LA Times)
The legal limits on states cooperating on climate change (Ethan Elkind)
San Francisco Sunday Streets events for 2017 announced (SF Examiner)
In San Diego, police blame pedestrians for getting hit (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Colorado rejects law to let bicyclists use stop signs as yield signs (Streetsblog Denver) (Denver Post)
San Francisco moves forward with transportation demand management legislation
How cities twist state law on housing needs (Market Urbanism)

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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