Today’s Headlines

8:44 AM PDT on September 13, 2019

SF Muni diverts buses from low-income neighborhood to give concertgoers free service (SF Examiner)
Proposal for car-free streets in S.F.'s Tenderloin (SF Examiner)
Why does a refinery in Bakersfield need an exemption from emission monitoring? (CALmatters, California League of Conservation Voters)
How Democratic candidates plan to fight climate change [Republicans don't] (Vox)
U.S. cities are car-friendly death traps (Vice)
Driver sues Uber over employment status (SF Chronicle)
Trump gets ready to take away CA's right to regulate emissions (Bloomberg)
CA bill to triple electric car rebates dies (SF Chronicle)
CA legislature advances bill that would eliminate duplicative federal, state review of transportation projects (Lake County News)
Bill to revive a version of redevelopment moves ahead (LA Times)
ARB weighs offsets in cap-and-trade as a way to preserve rainforests (LA Times)
Water, environment, and politics in one bill (CALmatters)

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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