Today’s Headlines

8:27 AM PST on December 8, 2022

These car-free streets are here to stay (Reasons to Be Cheerful)
Coachella Valley bike and pedestrian project gets $36M in Active Transportation Program grant (Desert Sun)
San Jose abolishes minimum parking requirements (Mercury News)
Traffic death surge drives calls for safety cameras (Route Fifty)
A school plants trees to fight freeway fumes (Fresnoland)
Supreme Court cases could upend environmental justice laws (Pew Trusts)
Study: People would rather walk somewhere interesting, even with obstacles (CBS)
Central Valley group sets out to "save oil company jobs" (Fresnoland)
Wildfire smoke can cut solar power output (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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“We’re excited to see Senator Wiener continue his leadership on active transportation with SB 71, which makes permanent a bill he authored to exempt biking, walking, and public transit plans and projects from CEQA review,” said CalBike Policy Director Jared Sanchez.