Today’s Headlines

9:11 AM PDT on June 12, 2017

BART podcast: How we prepare for emergencies (BART)
Now BART will try a courtesy campaign to get people to stop hogging seats (SF Gate)
Even Healdsburg is getting bike-share (Press Democrat)
LA mayor launches electric car-share system in disadvantaged communities (Business Wire)
A serious disconnect: After screaming for the state to “fix the roads,” taxpayers are mad that they have to pay for it (Sacramento Bee)
- and you can bet Republicans are going to take full advantage (LA Times) (KQED)
Meanwhile the CTC gets moving on how to spend that new gas tax money (SCV News)
The price of carbon needs to be a lot higher to meet climate change goals (Inside Climate News)
Some progress being made on CA budget (KQED)
Path to cap-and-trade extension is unclear (Argus Media)

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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