Today’s Headlines

8:24 AM PDT on October 7, 2022

California's unprecedented support for active transportation (CalBike)
Senator Wiener’s legislation to expedite sustainable transportation projects signed into law (Senator Scott Wiener)
For historic Black community, Crenshaw line is "a blessing and a curse" (LA Times)
How Bay Area transit is preparing for the next big one (SF Chronicle)
The death of parking requirements (Planetizen)
Podcast: How California's new parking law could lower housing costs - with Professor Donald Shoup (CalMatters)
Santa Barbara receives federal loan to add HOV lanes to Highway 101 (Reuters)
Union of Concerned Scientists supports Prop 30
CA has "plenty of land" to build out solar and wind, and keep energy costs down (LA Times)
This solar-powered Florida town says it weathered the hurricane just fine (CNN)
Washington launches a cap-and-trade program, aiming to link to California's in the future (Utility Dive)
How to improve the way laws are made in California (Capitol Weekly)

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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