Today’s Headlines

8:37 AM PDT on September 26, 2022

Transit is in serious trouble (Eno Center for Transportation)
The Bay Area transit map is an unholy mess (SF Chronicle)
SANDAG leaders say they won't use a "road charge" to pay for transportation plan (San Diego Union Tribune)
Grant allows LA Community College students to ride transit for free (LA Times)
Chilling video of a child almost run over in a crosswalk is all over media, but few note the inadequate police response (Autoblog)
Chico to get a couple of crosswalk improvements (Enterprise-Record)
San Jose police are using pedestrian decoys to catch, cite dangerous drivers (ABC7)
Drivers are killing San Diego pedestrians; Newscasters offer "safety tips for pedestrians" (Fox 5)
More on new California parking law as a win for climate and housing (LA Times, Bloomberg)
Research: Carbon offsets for Northern California forests are based on lies (Lost Coast Output)
Do tiny homes for homeless people help? (Mercury News)

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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