Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PST on December 12, 2017

Stop driving your kids to school (Outside Online)
Davis, Sacramento, and West Sacramento set to launch electric bike-share (Next City)
Giant donates bikes for Northern CA fire victims (Press Democrat, Marin Independent Journal)
Indio has grant money to build sidewalks, but contractors are too busy, project too small (Desert Sun)
BART tells VTA why its single-tunnel idea is a bad idea (Systemic Failure)
Route of planned freeway through northern Stanislaus County debated (Modesto Bee)
Is Union City building a transit-oriented downtown? (Urban Land Institute)
Future cap-and-trade emissions allowances have been bought up; now cap needs to be lowered quickly to reach emissions goals (NY Times)
With resignations over sexual harassment charges, state Assembly Democrats lose supermajority—for the moment (SCPR)
Trump's reckless climate policy invites a judicial backlash (Vox)
In the Netherlands, rising seas are an opportunity (NY Times)
Jeff Speck's ten rules for automated cities (CNU)

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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