Today’s Headlines

• Lompoc awarded grant to study better pedestrian and bike connections (Lompoc Record)
• San Diego awarded $16m in Active Transportation Program grants (Fox)
• UC Davis is studying how people are using Jump bikes (KCRA)
• A new attack against spending gas taxes on streets for all users (LA Times)
• Why California won’t ban gas cars just yet (CALmatters)
• In Ventura County: three workshops to gather community input on rail plans (VC Star)
• The victim-blaming notion of making it illegal to text while walking seems to be spreading (Stuff)
• Getting rid of the beg button (Yahoo Finance)
• Sacramento proposes free transit for kids (Sacramento Bee)
  • While Contra Costa pushes a summer youth pass for $35 (Patch)
• Oakland’s pothole vigilantes, hard at work (SF Chronicle)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF