Today’s Headlines
- Long-distance Amtrak trains—including the Coast Starlight—could get the axe (SF Chronicle)
- ….and so could climate change research (Daily News)
- The connections between affordable housing and climate change (Sacramento Bee)
- CA's cap-and-trade system: It's the cap that matters (Environmental Defense Fund)
- Massacre: In CA, 35 people were killed in traffic over holiday weekend (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Sacramento river will get a paved trail connection to Midtown (Sacramento Bee)
- S.F. contemplates expansion of transit-only lanes “experiment” (NextCity)
- Public transit's effect on real estate prices (Realtor.com)
- When freedom's just another word for “get out of my way” (Frontier Group)
- What have we sacrificed for transportation independence? (Strong Towns)
- Some thoughts about revitalizing and gentrifying neighborhoods (Granola Shotgun)
- Video: Awwww, puppy thinks he's pedaling that bike <3 (SB Nation)
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