Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PDT on June 21, 2022

Climate change is not slowing (IPCC)
Governor Newsom appoints Tony Tavares, District 7 (SoCal) Director, to head Caltrans (California Globe)
San Jose is a crucial transportation hub for the entire state (Mercury News)
What needs considering rules for automated buses? Comments open until August 1 (Smart Cities Dive)
Two-way protected bikeway coming to Pasadena's Union Street (Pasadena Now)
How restorative justice heals a school community (and should be used everywhere) (EdSource)
Racial equity work at the California State Transportation Agency (Strategic Growth Council)
Republicans reach out via twitter to beg Gov Newsom for relief from 3-cent "gas tax hike" (Twitter)
CA Dems vow to investigate cause of high gas prices, again (Spectrum)
New affordable housing is expensive (LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Today's Headlines are brought to you by our monthly donors. Thank you for your support!

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.

Stay in touch

More from Streetsblog California

Ride-hail

Report: Half of Uber, Lyft Trips Replace More Sustainable Options

Researchers at UC Davis have found that more than half of ride-hail trips in California replace walking, biking, carpooling, and public transit trips, or are trips that otherwise wouldn't happen. They have ideas to make it more sustainable.

Melanie Curry

August 30, 2024

Santa Monica

In October, Santa Monica Will Lower Speed Limits on 29 Streets – and Raise it on One

Based on Council procedures, the changes require a second vote that should occur at the September 10 meeting, with changes going into effect 30 days later.