Today’s Headlines
- Modesto offers an online tool to explore, weigh in on improving walking and biking (Modesto Bee)
- Merced County builds an automotive research and testing site (Merced County Times)
- Court rules that Caltrans can go ahead and widen a highway next to old-growth redwoods (Courthouse News)
- A different court rules that nope, loss of parking does not equate to environmental impact (JD Supra)
- Free parking is killing cities (Bloomberg)
- BART gets new escalators! (BART)
- Developers promise community benefits, but communities don't always get them (Shelterforce)
- American environmentalism has failed because it is marginal to people's lives (The Reader)
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