Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:07 AM PDT on August 24, 2017
- Stockton’s new bike plan includes road diets, separated bikeways, other improvements for safer biking (Record.net)
- Stockton to get first all-electric BRT in California (NextCity)
- Most recent cap-and-trade auction was a big success (Capital Public Radio)
- Its strength is from certainty (Environmental Defense Fund)
- And who will get the money? (Sacramento Bee)
- And who SHOULD get that money? (Sacramento Bee)
- Housing has to be part of climate change policy efforts (Mercury News)
- CA progressives disagreed on cap-and-trade bill (Good Times)
- Why building more freeway lanes does not solve congestion (UCLA)
- Bike theft ring busted in Truckee (CBS)
- On Amtrak, no more boxing bikes for many routes—including these ones that go to national parks (Adventure Cycling)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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