Today’s Headlines

9:03 AM PDT on March 11, 2019

L.A. stands up for Venice road diet (LA Times)
Bill would eliminate diesel trucks in CA (SF Chronicle)
Gas tax raises almost $2 billion so far (Action News Now)
Caltrain launches "Bikes Board First" policy (SFgate)
Housing, climate on top of legislative agenda (The Sun)
West coast states are already building a Green New Deal with cap-and-trade (North American Wind Power)
CA cap-and-trade is protecting South Carolina's forests (Post and Courier)
There's nothing wrong with a good debate on climate change (E&E News)
GOP is attacking the Green New Deal with bogus numbers (Politico)
Pope Francis has something to say about bikes (Forbes)
California's new EPA head walked the Pacific Crest Trail before taking the job (CALmatters)

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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