Today’s Headlines

• 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