Today’s Headlines

• 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