Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

By Melanie Curry

8:11 AM PDT on July 11, 2017

Opinion: California needs to connect the desert towns to the rest of the state (Sacramento Bee)
LA Metro’s Expo line reaches 2030 ridership goal (Curbed)
Sacramento County wants to widen, slow, develop near a local highway; Amador County wants nothing to change (Sacramento Bee)
Oh great: To prevent homeless from taking over bus stops, Anaheim removes benches around Disneyland (OC Register)
The case for rail on the Dumbarton Bridge (San Mateo Daily Journal)
CSU Long Beach will train construction workers needed now that there will be new tax money for transportation projects (Press Telegram)
State bill would change SANDAG structure (KPBS)
Study: Only 100 companies are responsible for 70% of global emissions (Guardian)
Climate change will be much worse than we think (New York Magazine)
- No it won’t (Mashable)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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