Today’s Headlines

8:31 AM PST on February 27, 2017

Santa Cruz will hold annual Light Up the Night bike ride this Saturday (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
In Davis on Thursday: A forum to learn about cap-and-trade (Davis Enterprise)
Yes, Californians will need to pay for better transportation (Sacramento Bee)
Bakersfield Congressional rep McCarthy flouts his clout, exposes Chao as a “tool,” stomps on Bay Area business interests (Sacramento Bee)
Senator Feinstein banters with constituents, but not at a town hall (Sacramento Bee)
Governor Brown takes action on water, transportation infrastructure repairs (Lake County News) (LA Times)
Cities try to lower speed limits to reduce deaths (Washington Post)
California affordable housing developers uncertain about proposed federal tax plan (LA Times)
Prohibiting dense development promotes traffic (LA Times)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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