Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
9:10 AM PDT on October 3, 2017
- Trees are a public health infrastructure (Fast Company)
- Santa Clara VTA to vote on distribution of bike/ped programming funds—which programs work? (Mercury News)
- Bill opens up possibility of new redwood park in Santa Cruz Mountains (Mercury News)
- Marin bicycle tunnel report brings out supporters, opponents (Marin Independent Journal)
- San Jose takes on Vision Zero (Mercury News)
- Bill creating rail authority to build light rail from Pleasanton BART to Tracy awaits Governor’s signature (Golden State Newspapers)
- Some see cronyism in hiring of High Desert Corridor project’s special projects coordinator (Victorville Daily Press)
- How I learned to love California high speed rail (Curbed)
- Municipal courts’ war on the poor (CityLab)
- General Motors says it will move away from fossil fuel vehicles (Wired)
- Cities oversell their bike friendliness (Planetizen)
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