Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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)
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