Today’s Headlines

8:50 AM PDT on August 13, 2018

Huge new transbay transit center opens in San Francisco (The Epoch Times)
Marin water district puts up signs prohibiting all e-bikes from its trails (Marin Independent Journal)
Work begins in Salinas in anticipation of future commuter rail service connection to Bay Area (The Californian)
BART security plan is not popular (Curbed)
Where your gas tax dollars go (CalMatters)
Oakland is undergoing a massive construction boom (Mercury News)
What would happen if cars were removed from cities? (European Sting)
Aliso Canyon mitigation settlement could go towards reducing methane from cows (Inside Climate News)

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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