Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:52 AM PDT on July 13, 2018
- Why it mattes that California hit its 2020 emissions targets early (Environmental Defense Fund)
- Stockton undermines its guidelines for a walkable downtown with drive-thru Starbucks (Stockton City Limits)
- Bike-share will help get commuters to, from SMART corridor in Sonoma, Marin (Marin Independent Journal)
- Pedestrian bridge at Warm Springs BART over budget, behind schedule, and very much needed (East Bay Times)
- Uber scales back its self-driving car project (CityLab)
- Does bike commuting affect your carbon footprint? [yes] (Streets.mn)
- Downtown L.A. to get double-decker electric buses (Trucks.com)
- CA communities get cap-and-trade funding to monitor local air quality (San Diego Union Tribune)
- State officials dispute findings of cap-and-trade study (Daily Republic)
- A cautionary tale from Ontario, Canada, where new premier is cancelling cap-and-trade, so:
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