Today’s Headlines

8:52 AM PST on January 16, 2020

Bicycles are the future of urban transportation (Bicycling)
Plumas County releases its final draft Regional Transportation Plan (Plumas News)
Richmond City Council bans coal shipments from port despite threat of lawsuits (LA Times, SF Chronicle)
State fights plan to move liquified natural gas by train (Patch)
Hmmm, maybe "traditional" indigenous practices can actually help prevent fires and reduce emissions (NY Times)
The case for "dumb" cities (The Guardian)
Report focuses on clean energy--cars and cement factories--for emissions reductions (CalMatters)
Uber's attempt to skirt A.B. 5 could allow drivers to discriminate (SF Chronicle)
A.B. 5 faces a boatload of lawsuits (Transport Topics, Route Fifty)
NASA, NOAA: 2019 was second warmest year on record (LA Times)
Heat is decimating populations of ocean birds and fish (LA Times)

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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