Today’s Headlines

• A history of urban highways, and of who matters (Strong Towns)
• The story of Caltrain electrification, meddling Republican Congressmembers, and the federal government:
  • Feds waver (KTVU)
  • Now it’s the whole high-speed rail program that got stopped (Governing)
  • Caltrain pushes back (The Hill)
  • Caltrain launches a petition begging the DOT to reconsider (SF Examiner)
• And where is electrification warranted? Everywhere (Pedestrian Observations)
• Op-Ed: Republican transportation funding plan makes sense: we shouldn’t have to pay a cent to keep  building roads (Desert Dispatch)
• Op-Ed: Whatever, just fix the transportation system already (Bakersfield.com)
• Cooling down urban areas: more trees, fewer cars (Guardian)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF