Today’s Headlines

8:02 AM PDT on October 4, 2017

National City first to take on requirement to include environmental justice in planning (Next City)
How California can ban fossil fuel cars (Wired)
Part of Playa del Rey road diet to be rescinded (LA Times)
Candidate proposes getting rid of tolls: “We still have congestion” (LA Times)
Imperial County still thinks it can build its way out of congestion (Calexico Chronicle)
Marin kicks off a climate change campaign (Marin Independent Journal)

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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