Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PDT on September 18, 2020

Plan for Sacramento light rail moves ahead (Capital Public Radio)
LA Metro's traffic reduction study gearing up (The Source)
Lessons from Oakland's 20-year BRT saga (Transit Center)
Santa Barbara's State Street, closed to cars, has seen lots of biking and walking - and the bikes are just too much for some (News Press)
Construction begins on multi-use path in Santa Barbara (Edhat)
Davis installs new bike lockers at Amtrak station (Daily Democrat)
How urban leaders could save us from SUVs (CityLab)
Bay Area home prices are still going up (SF Chronicle)
Local climate action in US proves resilient to COVID (TheCityFix)

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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