Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:44 AM PDT on June 13, 2018
- The missing middle of biking (Strong Towns)
- You can’t fix mass transit by destroying it (CityLab)
- Walk Lake Isabella project seeks funding, public input (Kern Valley Sun)
- They’re still counting ballots in some primary races (Sacramento Bee)
- What the gas tax will pay for in Sacramento County, if it doesn’t get repealed (Sacramento Bee)
- Member profile: Jeff Wood of Talking Headways (The Urbanist)
- Yet one more reason to get out and vote: Plan to split California into three states wins a spot on the November ballot (Capital Public Radio)
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