Today’s Headlines

8:33 AM PDT on June 29, 2017

Myth Busters: No, increasing road capacity does not cut GHG emissions (City Observatory)
Ford Go-Bike set to launch in Bay Area, along with competitor bike-share companies (San Francisco Magazine)
Lessons from the '70s bike boom (Curbed)
Palo Alto's new budget signals shift in transportation (Palo Alto Online)
CA Supreme Court upholds cap-and-trade (LA Times, SF Gate, Reuters)
Is California selling climate illusions? (Medium)
Governor Brown is giving the oil industry a say on climate efforts (In These Times)
There's a war between housing activists in S.F. (Slate)
Cyclists are not a separate species (Bicycle Network)
There's money to fix rural roads, but it won't happen overnight (Union Democrat)

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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