Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:40 AM PDT on June 5, 2017
- Bike-share to expand in Bay Area, link to Clipper transit card accounts, give discounts to low-income residents (Hoodline)
- Highway 62 in Joshua Tree gets some bike lanes (KESQ)
- Mayors must do more than tweet to fight for climate change (Systemic Failure)
- The Central Valley isn’t nowhere and high speed rail isn’t “crazy” –it’s a job producer (Modesto Bee)
- Your transportation choices and climate change (KPCC)
- The best way to resist Trumpian agenda? Divest from fossil fuels. (The Guardian)
- Oh. And stop driving so much (Curbed)
- People are buying fewer cars, maybe (Washington Post)
- So, all those freeway expansions that claim to be only for high occupancy vehicles? Forget it: Bill to allow everyone to use carpool lanes during “nonpeak” hours passes Assembly (Press Enterprise)
- Trump’s backing out of Paris accord won’t shut down clean energy industry (SF Chronicle)
- How the GOP came to view climate change as fake science (Alaska Daily News)
- Home buyers want high Walk Scores (SF Chronicle)
- Suburbia’s new face (Christian Science Monitor)
- Communities fighting affordable housing are also making it hard for the people who pick our food (LA Times)
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