Today’s Headlines

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)

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, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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