Today’s Headlines

8:47 AM PDT on June 26, 2017

L.A. Metro approves funds for Gold Line extension (Construction Dive)
Cap-and-trade fight heats up, just like the climate (Sacramento Bee, LA Times)
U.S. rice farmers are earning carbon credits from cap-and-trade (Inside Climate New)
Cars are deadlier than guns (KPBS)
Meanwhile, car commuters in L.A. insist on their absolute right to wide, congestion-free commutes through beach cities they don't live in (LA Times)
Paying more for parking in Palo Alto is “absolutely outrageous” (Palo Alto Online)
New state rep delays swearing-in so he can vote on cap-and-trade (New Yorker)
CA bill would model electric car program on successful solar initiative (GTM)
Group files suit against Caltrans highway widening through redwoods (Biological Diversity)

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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