Today’s Headlines

8:50 AM PDT on March 29, 2019

Study: Congestion pricing could cut driving in West LA (LA Times)
- Congestion pricing explained (Jalopnik)
Driving a train in Southern California (Curbed)
Petaluma hopes widening the freeway will reduce traffic (Petaluma 360)
Transportation app has potential to reduce car trips (Forbes)
Bay Area home prices, sales reflect expectations that upcoming IPOs will mean lots of people with cash (SF Chronicle)
Tale of two Californias: Prosperity on the coast, harder times inland (SF Chronicle)
"Never forget?" Nah: The move to rename L.A.'s Memorial Coliseum means they already did (LA Times)
Citizen science: Oakland tested an earthquake early warning system yesterday (KQED)

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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