Today’s Headlines

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)

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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