Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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)
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