Today’s Headlines

8:12 AM PDT on September 8, 2021

San Diego pledged to reduce car use - so why is it still widening freeways? (KPBS)
Oil companies drop lawsuit to force CA to "consider the benefits of natural gas" in climate policies (LA Times)
Long-stalled pedestrian bridge in Santa Rosa may not be quite dead (Press Democrat)
In-car infotainment is a big distraction (Slate)
No snow on Mt Shasta means rivers of mud quickly changing the landscape (LA Times)
A park? Or an off-road vehicle area? State moves toward the former (SF Chronicle)
Some Alameda County transportation projects that just got state funding (Pleasanton Weekly)
A look at Spain's high-speed rail network (CNN)
Low vaccination rates in the Central Valley contribute to hospitals overwhelmed with COVID cases (LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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Melanie Curry @StreetsblogCal

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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