Today’s Headlines

7:42 AM PDT on March 20, 2017

Riding a bike on familiar roads without cars is so great (SGV Tribune)
Sometimes pedestrians get a head start (Sacramento Bee)
California Transportation Commission allocates money for bike, pedestrian projects (Streetsblog) (CBS)
- SoCal gets some of that (SGV Tribune)
- Inland Empire gets some too (Highland News)
- and San Diego gets money for highway repairs (Times of San Diego)
Transit leaders denounce Trump's proposed funding cuts (Mass Transit)
Again: If Trump's proposed budget were to pass, it would be a disaster (NACTO)
Finding money to repair California roads (Capitol Weekly)
License plate readers are more and more common: Carlsbad plans to use them on every car that enters the city (San Diego Union Tribune)

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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