Today’s Headlines

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

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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