Today’s Headlines

8:55 AM PDT on October 1, 2018

How bike-share data could help improve cities (Technology Review)
Brown signs BART housing bill (Mercury News)
An appreciation of the ACE train (SF Chronicle) (Same article at Ventura County Star)
Caltrain could replace an 8-lane freeway (Caltrain HSR)
Pedestrian bridge over La Cienega could actually happen (LA Weekly)
Air Resources Board strengthens vehicle emission rules (San Diego Union Tribune)
- and makes Low Carbon Fuel Standard stricter (SCVnews)
- ...and adds new incentives for hydrogen, electricity, and biofuel use (ArsTechnica)
Clean vehicle legislation could change the way San Diegans commute.... a little (NBC)
Hey, John Cox: Fresno is not “nowhere” (Systemic Failure)
Lafayette City Manager resigns in frustration at residents' disinterest re housing, climate change (East Bay Times)
Clean energy at stake in these state governor elections (Daily Bulletin)

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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