Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PST on March 5, 2019

San Diego does it: No more parking required for new housing in transit priority areas (NRDC, KUSI)
CA high-speed rail officials call on Trump to stop threatening its funding (Sacramento Bee)
- LA Times HSR critic Vartabedian is skeptical, as usual
L.A. readies to adopt VMT under CEQA (Urbanize Los Angeles)
Red carpet transit lanes work great (CityLab)
It wasn't easy, but East Oakland will get BRT before SF (SF Chronicle)
Lyft and Uber are about to become publicly traded companies (Curbed)
Bike-share companies are pivoting to e-scooters (Bicycling)
Google Maps now show scooters and bike-share (Forbes)
CA lawmakers want $100 billion for clean energy (The State)
Bay Area cities push back on proposed housing fix (Mercury News)
Disney donates $5 million for homeless housing (Daily News)

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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