Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PDT on October 16, 2017

Poorest neighborhoods in Fresno finalize plan for parks, sidewalks, school, jobs with $35m in cap-and-trade funding (NextCity)
Bikes help women escape Northern California fires with dog (NBC4), with kids while pregnant (Sacramento Bee)
Santa Maria: Workshop on unmet transit needs, Oct 26, is hiding under the radar (Santa Maria Times)
Cupertino plans bike festival next weekend (Mercury News)
Rebuilt bridge to Big Sur opens (US News)
Transportation “improvements” (for highways) coming soon to Riverside County (Press Enterprise)
Caltrans is looking for input on its statewide rail plan (Progressive Railroading)
Buckle up: Next year's election is going to be a wild ride (LA Times)(SF Gate)
Bicycle suspension is evil (Outside)

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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