Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PDT on August 30, 2021

San Jose's light rail is back (and football fans are happy) (Mercury News)
San Jose wants residents to ditch the car (Patch)
Lompoc wants input on street improvements (Santa Barbara News-Press)
National City community leaders rally for environmental justice (The Star News)
Pedestrians hold the key to sustainable cities (Forbes)
CARB considering changes to EV rebate programs (Spectrum News)
How the U.S. can cut GHGs (Harvard Magazine)
All fossil fuel products - energy, plastics, toxic chemicals - must end (NY Times)
Is L.A. slow-walking studying how to replace cops in traffic enforcement? (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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