Today’s Headlines

8:37 AM PDT on March 22, 2019

Newsom proposes a tax break for the wealthy to help pay for affordable housing (Sacramento Bee)
Millions going for road repairs in Alpine, Mariposa counties (My Mother Lode)
A primer on Level of Service (Brookings)
Two federal bills from GOP seek to take away CA high speed rail funding (CNBC)
Marin is still fighting over allowing e-bikes (KQED)
Join a giant "human bicycle sculpture" in Pasadena in April (NBC)
Senior housing in Richmond: An AHSC success story (Housing Finance)
Eight cities making car-free spaces (Fast Company)
"It's a car.... in a very small tunnel": Actual transportation professionals unimpressed by Musk's "traffic solution" (Jalopnik)

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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