Today’s Headlines

8:23 AM PDT on June 25, 2018

Their friend died in a hit-and-run; Can they take on L.A.'s car culture? (New York Times)
San Diego Bike Plan: Committee approves a plan to make it happen (Times of San Diego)
Time to stop arguing about helmets and start building safe infrastructure (Treehugger)
Carpinteria holds a transportation summit, learns about “alternative transportation” efforts (Noozhawk)
Livermore transit agency to begin testing a shared autonomous vehicle (small bus) at Dublin BART station (PR Leap)
Energy and auto industry leaders form Transportation Electrification Accord (National Law Review)
In San Francisco, a little cap-and-trade money will help build affordable housing (San Francisco Chronicle)
Estimating potential deaths resulting from Trump environmental agenda (Journal of the American Medical Association)

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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