Today’s Headlines

8:55 AM PDT on March 24, 2017

Santa Clarita considering bike-share (Signal SCV)
Among recent allocations, CTC allocates $60 million to rail projects (RT&S)
Public workshops to be held on proposed S.F. Bay Area air control rules (East Bay Times)
New study using Google streetview cars finds a lot of methane leaks (Washington Post)
Some people will use any excuse to attack bike infrastructure: Old entitled guy blames bicycle lane for Westminster Bridge attack (BikeBiz)
What California high speed rail can learn from Europe (Railway Technology)
Complete streets project in Windsor among winners of League of California Cities innovation, efficiency awards
New ebike looks like a tiny canvas car (The Sun)
Renters now make up half of city dwellers (Bloomberg)
New US DOT secretary Elaine Chao interviewed by USA Today
Cities planting trees to reduce urban heat island effects (Huffington Post)

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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