Today’s Headlines

8:51 AM PDT on September 23, 2022

Newsom signs bill to eliminate minimum parking requirements (Cal Matters, Sacramento Bee, SF Chronicle)
Yesterday was World Car Free Day - Here are reasons to make every day car free (Forbes)
Listen to this podcast: Killer roads (Arrested Mobility)
Wind and solar energy is now the default for all residential and commercial ratepayers in Berkeley (Berkeleyside)
Visalia gets $4m federal grant to widen a road "to support expansion plans of an industrial park" (Sun Gazette)
Three women who changed the course of history on bikes (Momentum Magazine)
A guide to conversion kits to turn your bike into an e-bike (Cycling News)
An ode to the train trip from the Bay Area to LA: slow but beautiful (Mercury News)
A very different ode to San Bernardino City Council meetings (The Sun)
EV charging in CA is not quite ready (but, dude, a Ford F-150 in Berkeley?) (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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