Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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
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