Today’s Headlines

8:06 AM PST on November 21, 2019

Santa Cruz Bicycles will give away $1 million for projects that improve mountain biking (Bicycle Retailer)
Trail advocates sue U.S. Forest Service for allowing e-bikes on Tahoe trails (Bicycle Retailer)
Palo Alto moves forward on bike bridge (Palo Alto Online)
Tax credits for transit agencies who buy electric buses, maybe (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Newsom blocks pending fracking permits, plans to strengthen rules on oil extraction (LA Times)
Homeless mothers take over a vacant house (Mercury News)
Official federal count of S.F.'s homeless population is dwarfed by city database (Curbed)
Learning from elsewhere:
- Could New York City eliminate free street parking? (NY Times)
- Boston employers are not helping get people out of cars (Commonwealth Magazine)
- Salt Lake City's air is dangerously smoggy, and the city isn't making changes (City Weekly)

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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