Today’s Headlines

8:22 AM PDT on September 21, 2018

Report: Poverty is high in California by any measure (PPIC)
Opinion: To combat climate change, California must “modernize” transportation (Sacramento Bee)
Response to overblown Prop 6 report warns of heavy consequences if it passes (PR Newswire)
Cupertino approves affordable housing at old mall, despite NIMBY claim that poor, uneducated people don't belong in that city (Curbed)
Infrastructure maintenance backlogs are hard to document (Route Fifty)
Gentrification is changing the names of Oakland neighborhoods (East Bay Express)
NY could fight congestion with parking policy (NY Times)

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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