Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
9:11 AM PDT on April 17, 2017
- San Diego’s “aggressive” bike plan includes hiring someone to oversee it (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Well-off communities Laguna Beach and Newport Beach are fixing their sidewalks (LA Times)
- Bay Bridge bike path to open seven days a week (SF Weekly)
- The very thought of roundabouts gets people in a tizzy, but they are safer, smoother, cheaper (Modesto Bee)
- Palm Springs mayor wants to scale down the CV Link in his city (Desert Sun)
- A Rancho Cucamonga mixed-use project will have an “east coast feel” (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
- Apple gets a permit to test self-driving cars in CA (Business Standard)
- Apple claims its new HQ is the greenest building in the world–not with all that parking it isn’t (Slate)
- Parking is powerful (Strong Towns)
- Construction contract approved for express lanes in Riverside County (Patch.com)
- Plaintiff plans to try again with cap-and-trade ruling (Law360)
- LA Times and Sacramento Bee wonder if the legislature can muster another two-thirds vote for cap-and-trade
- SB1 will help bring the ACE train to Modesto (Mass Transit)
- And the OC Register suggests the ACE deal “broke the law”
- Is CA winning the war on greenhouse gas emissions? (Sacramento Bee)
- Can CA lead other states on climate change? (LA Times)
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