Today’s Headlines

9:09 AM PDT on June 30, 2017

Connections among transportation, freight, and environmental justice in the Inland Empire (Safe Routes to School)
Civil engineers need to learn other languages, or at least do some traveling (Systemic Failure)
Video: Caltrans figures out how to dig Highway 1 out from under the mud
A history of zoning (Strong Towns)
Climate policy benefits vastly exceed costs (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
How climate change will affect California's water (Sacramento Bee)
Garcetti, Schwarzenegger talk climate (Fox and Hounds)
CTC still widening CA roads for “safety” (of vehicles) and “efficiency” (that is, speed) (Bakersfield.com)
VW to locate its Green City electric vehicle program in Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
New California U.S. Rep Jimmy Gomez hasn't been sworn in yet, and Republican leader is getting impatient (LA Times)

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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