Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PDT on October 11, 2017

Former legislators use their relationships to lobby for big oil (CalMatters)
Goleta considers new bike and pedestrian improvements, including closing a walkway to prevent jaywalking (Noozhawk)
Walnut Creek readies its list of projects to receive gas tax money: lots of repaving (East Bay Times)
Redding considers roundabouts at freeway interchange (Record Searchlight)
San Francisco's brewing bike-share battle (SF Examiner)
What EPA's move to repeal Clean Power Plan could mean for California (SCPR)
More about new laws: Seat belts on buses, zero-emission vehicles
Rotterdam is a case study in trying small fixes—and losing the war against emissions (Next City)
Potential outcomes from autonomous cars: lower housing costs? End of light rail? More sprawl (GovTech)

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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