Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PST on February 22, 2018

Sonoma County plans a bike trail connecting Petaluma and Sebastopol—way off in the future (Bohemian)
Santa Barbara commuter train service will begin on April 2 (Independent)
Can L.A. improve its track record on transit oriented development? (Brookings)
Uber launches Express POOL service (Wired)
- ...which could serve SF airport (SF Examiner)
Sacramento is trying not to leave low-income people behind in push for electric cars (Capital Public Radio)
S.F. considering rules to ban jitneys that compete with Muni routes (SF Examiner)
A primer on Value Capture Financing, which is required for transit in federal infrastructure plan (Strong Towns)
Study: It's not CEQA, it's local laws that are delaying housing (LA Times)

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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