Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:28 AM PDT on August 8, 2017
- Multimodal transportation brings freedom, opportunity, security (Planetizen)
- New BART station has zero pedestrian access (Systemic Failure)
- We should have such problems: tons of bike parking, not enough (Guardian)
- Bike-share facing resistance in San Francisco (CBS)
- Caltrans is hiring. A lot (Sacramento Bee)
- Riverside streetcar is stalled (Press Enterprise)
- Electric vehicle manufacturer will move to Hanford, CA—near future HSR stop (Elektrek, Visalia Times Delta)
- How skateboarders increase safety for everyone (Guardian)
- Are we undercounting the homeless population? (NY Times)
- Lawmakers who voted for cap-and-trade were among top recipients of oil lobby donations (CBS)
- Podcast: Local effects of cap-and-trade bills (KALW)
- Lawsuit filed over federal deletion of GHG tracking requirement (SSTI)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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