Skip to Content
Streetsblog California home
Streetsblog California home
Log In
Thanks to our advertising sponsor -
Keep bus lanes for buses. Today's stories are presented by HaydenAI

Advertisement opens in a new tab.

Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

8:56 AM PST on February 12, 2019

    • Sometimes car is home (CityLab)
    • Long-delayed pedestrian access bridge at Warm Springs BART station moves ahead...to 2020 (Mercury News)
    • Advocates celebrated Transit Equity Day (Sierra Club)
    • L.A. ditches plan to rebuild three fossil fuel plants (LA Times)
    • Green New Deal: What should priorities be? (Treehugger)
    • "Green" trucking and transport sees job growth in CA (Trucks.com)
    • UC Santa Cruz to receive grant to widen bike path, education program (UCSC)
    • Federal judge rejects CA environmental objections to border wall (SF Chronicle)
    • Tulsa Police dispute Smart Growth America's pedestrian fatality numbers, blame pedestrians, acknowledge there's no safe place to walk, say "at least it's not kids walking to school--nobody walks to school anymore" (Public Radio Tulsa)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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.

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter

More from Streetsblog California

Governor Newsom

First Look at the First Draft of Newsom’s Budget for the 2026-2027 Fiscal Year

"Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget—and I’ll tell you what you value," Joe Biden.

January 12, 2026
Streetsblog California

Monday’s Headlines

Fresnoland Recaps Arguments in Hwy. 99 Case, ICE Protests and Abductions, Rail in LA and the Bay and more...

January 12, 2026
Streetsblog USAEnforcement

When the Government Says You’re ‘Weaponizing’ Your Car

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers have been brutalizing and killing people who they perceive as threats. Is mass automobility multiplying their pretext to do it?

January 11, 2026
Streetsblog San FranciscoParking

Advocates Move to Save Oakland’s Parking Enforcement

An unscrupulous maneuver to transfer control of parking enforcement could have serious implications for safe streets.

January 9, 2026
Streetsblog California

The Week in Short Video

Rain gardens, bikes on trains, Uber on the ballot, Changes at CA High-Speed Rail, and reactions to ICE.

January 9, 2026
Streetsblog Los AngelesPodcast

SGV Connect 145: Phoenix Tso of L.A. Public Press and the Altadena Fires

Struggles are plenty: insurance claims, fire remediation, lost income, lost neighbors and customers, and real estate development.

January 9, 2026
See all posts