Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:54 AM PDT on August 1, 2017
- Forget electric cars: For clean air, switch to bikes (Guardian)
- City Hall needs to be a better champion for safe streets (LA Times)
- Brown signs bill extending CEQA exemption for bike lanes (LA Times)
- To reduce emissions, denser housing is a necessity (Planetizen)
- No, no, no, no: Parking! Traffic! says Berkeley neighborhood to housing proposal (Berkeleyside)
- The anti-gentrification movement in California (Guardian)
- Berkeley makes move to ban discrimination against low-income renters (East Bay Times)
- El Cerrito develops an affordable housing strategy (East Bay Times)
- How BART deals with homeless using its system (East Bay Times)
- Your risk of getting asthma changes with your zip code (CityLab)
- A guide: Potential impacts of autonomous vehicles (Planetizen)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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