Today’s Headlines

7:44 AM PDT on May 25, 2017

Latest cap and trade auction is a success (Sacramento Bee)
Delivery robots come to the UC Berkeley campus (Berkeleyside)
Governor Brown visits polluted L.A. neighborhoods that aren't seeing benefits from climate policies (LA Times)
San Mateo County increases $ for affordable housing, reduces cuts to paratransit (Green Caltrain)
A brief history of the battle over the 710 freeway extension (LA Times)
Rural Fresno to get solar powered charging stations (Sys-Con)
Who killed the GAO study of rising transit costs? (Vox)
Republicans are still trying to get mileage out of the idea that Brown is “diverting” gas tax money: hey peeps, everything in the bill—public transportation, bike infrastructure, research—contributes to better transportation for everyone (Bakersfield Now)
Great—the man in charge of U.S. housing thinks poverty is “a state of mind” (USA Today)

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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