Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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
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