Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PDT on October 24, 2019

In California, prefab apartment buildings are saving time and money (CALmatters)
Lessons from Oakland's adaptive bike share program (Next City)
What's bad for the planet is bad for the economy (KQED)
Bipartisan Vision Zero Act would fund safe streets (Curbed)
Governor Newsom responds to Trump EPA suit on cap-and-trade (SCPR)
- As does Senator Feinstein
Trump's trade war with China raises the price of soft-hit posts (Inquirer)
The weird, infuriating world of comedy traffic school, a product of California's permissive regulations (Vulture)
Columnists at tiny papers continue to fan the flames of the "gas tax bait-and-switch" that never was (The Union)
Ethics, equity, and empathy in transportation planning (Regional Planning Association)

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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