Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

By Melanie Curry

8:34 AM PST on January 10, 2019

Ford to end sponsorship of Bay Area’s bike-share (Axios)
The inequity of pay-by-distance transit in the Bay Area: BART is unaffordable to people making minimum wage (Curbed)
The fallacy of local control over growth (Strong Towns)
Would you live in an apartment that used to be a BART car? (Curbed)
How European cities are dealing with transit fare evasion (CityLab)
Reasons to decriminalize transit fare evasion (TransitCenter)
Newsom creates team to work on problems at DMV (Sacramento Bee)
Sierra Club explores controversial idea: Local offsets for GHGs in San Diego (San Diego Union Tribune)
When Kate McKinnon starred in Streetsfilms as an anti-bike crusader (CityLab)
Photos compare the LA River past and present (Curbed)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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