Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:46 AM PDT on May 4, 2017
- A shout out to bike commuters (ABC10)
- People in Sacramento aren’t sure what “jaywalking” is (Capital Public Radio)
- Persistence pays off with new bike lanes in Woodside (Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition)
- Cupertino proposes bike boulevards (The Mercury News)
- Most Americans see value in public transportation (Mobility Lab)
- Analysis of new cap-and-trade proposal (Sacramento Bee)
- Arguments about cap-and-trade and the definition of “tax” continue (Fox&Hounds)
- CA climate investments leading to more zero-emission vehicles in the Central Valley (Central Valley Business Times)
- Lots of questions and comments to the DMV around self-driving cars rules (Ars Technica)
- Housing: A Palo Alto “tear down” exposes a hole in local housing policies (Vox)
- ICYMI: The guy in charge of U.S. public housing doesn’t want people living in it be comfortable (NY Times)
- In Orange County, $84,000 a year now qualifies as “low-income” (Orange County Register)
- Chemical Safety Board, in charge of investigating Torrance refinery explosion, is threatened by Trump budget cuts (Daily News)
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