Today’s Headlines

9:03 AM PDT on September 8, 2017

Gold Line extension is the perfect project for cap-and-trade money (Daily Bulletin)
BART's transit village is more like a parking-oriented village (Systemic Failure)
Stockton rolls out fully electric BRT (Smart Cities Dive)
Sacramento will try again with local transportation sales tax measure (Sacramento Bee)
The path to carbon-free electricity (Capitol Weekly)
People want to get their hands on unused Bott's dots, now surplus as Caltrans will not use them on highway lane markings anymore (Mercury News)
Ford goes on the attack against texting pedestrians (Planetizen)
Lyft planning to introduce self-driving cars in Bay Area (Mercury News)
How Colombia has changed the biking experience there (BikeLaw.com)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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