Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:39 AM PDT on March 20, 2019
- Santa Inez Valley Transit ridership is up, bucking national trends (Lompoc Record)
- Testimony from the widow of a hit-and-run victim brings committee to tears, but bill to raise maximum penalty still doesn’t pass (Fresno Bee)
- Solar and wind power has quintupled in ten years (Grist)
- California solar output met 59% of demand this past weekend (PV Magazine)
- Congressional task force studies “market-based” alternatives to Green New Deal (Earth & Space Science)
- What’s killing pedestrians? Streets designed for vehicles (Bloomberg)
- Why California is suing its own cities (Governing)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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