Today’s Headlines

8:44 AM PST on January 9, 2020

City of Santa Cruz passes ordinance requiring consideration of "Health in All Policies" (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Long Beach approves funds to improve a bike lane, and parking lots (Signal Tribune)
Lots of investment in U.S. transit in the past decade, but not enough (The Transport Politic)
The top California planning stories of the 2010s (California Planning and Development Report)
CA's renewable energy mandates have helped reduce carbon emissions, but several Republicans want to pause them (CalMatters)
Governor Newsom calls for new money to help homeless (LA Times)
Stop calling Elon Musk's Boring tunnel public transit (Curbed)
U.S. Democrats announce sweeping climate legislation (The Hill)
Feds are not really interested in regulating AVs (Politico)

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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