Today’s Headlines

8:18 AM PDT on June 22, 2017

Here's a quick quiz: Can you identify these cities just by a map of their bike infrastructure? (Guardian)
Seriously, Long Beach, just promote Bike Index, don't build a new bike registry app (Long Beach Post)
Sacramento businesses agree to tax themselves to fund a streetcar (Sacramento Bee)
Thinking about public transit ridership: No such thing as a “captive” rider (Greater Greater Washington)
Update on CA cap-and-trade (Guardian)
Buy Clean California act could increase US, recycled steel production (Think Progress)
ARB has been fining companies for not complying with emission rules (Next-Gen Transportation)
Watch out for big-oil-backed carbon tax proposals (Huffington Post)
Exploitation of labor is a dirty secret of the freight industry (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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