Today’s Headlines

8:38 AM PDT on July 19, 2019

Giving away parking at transit stations is pure evil (Sightline)
Life at a transit village (SF Chronicle)
American Canyon sued over plan to widen highway through town (Napa Valley Register)
Dangerous by Design: The 100 most dangerous Congressional districts for people walking (18 are in California) (Smart Growth America)
More diverging diamond interchanges coming to California (SF Chronicle)
Seleta Reynolds on the Open Mobility Foundation: standards for sharing, using data for safety, equity, emissions (Forbes)
California Energy Commission approves $70m for all-electric school buses (Transportation Today)
Trump's USDA buried a plan to respond to climate change (Politico)
Bill Gates: Why spend all this time, thought, innovation on self-driving cars? (Fast Company)
The connections between climate change and clean water (Mother Earth News)
Kern County Chevron oil leak continues (LA Times)
How long would it take to bike to the moon? (Wired)

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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