Today’s Headlines

8:39 AM PDT on September 18, 2017

Road diet, bike lanes planned in San Jose (Mercury News)
Dockless bike-share debuts in San Diego (Fox5)
The CA legislative session ends, and plenty got done that will affect your life (Sacramento Bee)
Bigger rebates for EVs hits a bump (East Bay Times)
New CA bill would require driver's ed (Mercury News)
Proposed Bay Bridge toll hike (VB Profiles) could bring “windfall” to Marin (Marin IJ)
Houston bike-share offers bikes to people who lost cars in flooding (Fast Company, Houston Chronicle)
Amazon's “competition” for its HQ location is a way to extort major public subsidies (City Commentary)
- Why no city should want Amazon (Reuters)
- Tech companies think they owe nothing to the American city (LA Times)
Architecture critic John King takes a look at the new Transbay Transit Center—with awesome graphics (SF Chronicle)

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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