Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:21 AM PDT on June 8, 2017
- Pregnant women can benefit from cycling (Medical Express) (Elsevier)
- Pleasanton adopts Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan update (Pleasanton Weekly)
- Get I-80 moving by adding a train stop in Hercules (East Bay Times)
- Progress on adopting Positive Train Control in California (Transit California)
- Governor Brown strikes a climate deal with China (Governing)
- The transportation status quo is fragile (Medium)
- Public-private projects cost the public plenty (New York Times)
- Gaping potholes in Trump’s infrastructure plan (NRDC)
- Jimmy Gomez goes to Washington, and his Assembly seat is now up for grabs (LA Times)
- Greenhouse gas emissions—at least, per capita GHGs—are going down in California (LA Times)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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