Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PDT on September 9, 2021

Everyone "jaywalks," but only some get tickets for it - that could change in CA (LAist)
Cap-and-trade forest offsets are a big and dangerous lie (LA Times)
Carbon emissions from to water delivery are likely to spike if water use does not decrease (Next10)
This planet needs no-traffic neighborhoods (Forbes)
Celebrate the 15th anniversary of Park(ing) Day next week (The Dirt)
StreetFilms travels to Montreal for its 1,000th StreetFilm
A new "railroad company" wants to revive defunct northern CA rail line - planned to be transformed into a trail - to transport coal (Trains)
Some lawmakers oppose even testing a road user charge; drivers just do not want to pay for road maintenance (The Coast News)
Local decisions could thwart state housing mandates (Capital and Main)

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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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