Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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)
- 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
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