Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
7:32 AM PST on March 3, 2017
- Governor Brown steps in to ask the feds for Caltrain’s promised money: “Can we discuss this on the phone?” —and, incredibly, the LA Times once again conflates Caltrain and High Speed Rail
- Menlo Park plans to merge transportation, bicycle commissions (Mercury News)
- We keep building near freeways, despite evidence that it makes people sick (LA Times)
- Here’s the work that went into reporting that story (LA Times)
- What cities looked like before the EPA existed (CityLab)
- To fight climate change, California needs all its tools (Sacramento Bee)
- More cap-and-trade money ought to go to the Central Valley (Merced Sun Star)
- But not much money is coming in (Capital Press)
- How California holds a trump card on the environment (The Atlantic)
- Freight trucking costs us all a lot of money (City Commentary)
- This tool compares cities on equity, resilience, housing (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
- Google mappers are also census takers (The Economist)
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