Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PDT on October 2, 2018

Once again, with feeling: Lowering speeds can reduce crashes (SSTI)
Santa Cruz to get a new library, no, jk, that's a parking garage (Systemic Failure)
Tomorrow is California Clean Air Day (Daily Bulletin)
Could a misleading title for gas tax repeal affect its outcome? (CALmatters)
Democrat challenger in Orange County loses labor endorsement when she comes out in support of gas tax repeal (CALmatters)
BART housing bill signed (Curbed)
UC Berkeley study: California needs rent control (Long Beach Post)
What effects would Wiener's unsuccessful housing bill have had on communities? (Urban Displacement Project)
An explainer on gentrification (Architectural Record)
CARB's trio of clean transportation actions (NGTnews)
UC Professor Dan Sperling on California's broken transportation system (CALmatters)
Clean energy is 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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