Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:18 AM PDT on September 24, 2018
- LA just had its longest streak of bad-air days in decades (LA Times)
- No, BART, the seats are really too high (Systemic Failure)
- The cycling gap among U.S. cities (Wired)
- It’s hard to overstate how destructive Prop 6 would be for California, says LA Times
- Santa Barbara County Association of Governments opposes Prop 6 (Noozhawk)
- San Jose poll sees strong local support for Google transit village (Mercury News)
- Some Business Improvement Districts invest in criminalizing homelessness (NextCity)
- In January, 220,000 EV cars will lose carpool lane privileges (Planetizen)
- Forbes Magazine finds reasons to object to California’s clean energy goals
- Why affordable housing is so expensive (CityLab)
- California coastal cities should prepare for ten feet of sea level rise (Scientific American)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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