Monday’s Headlines

Update on the status of the bike path on the RSR bridge; Santa Cruz transit about to get a lot better; Headstone could delay Metro expansion; Free transit on Clean Air Day (this Wednesday); More

By Melanie Curry

8:47 AM PDT on October 2, 2023

Riders on the bridge when it first opened Photo by Melanie Curry/ Streetsblog

Biking in San Diego jumped 71% since 2019 (KPBS)
An update on the status of the Richmond San Rafael bridge bike path (Marin County Bicycle Coalition)
Walking and biking on the Pasadena Freeway (Pasadena Star News)
Bus strike in Santa Clarita leaves residents stranded (Hoodline)
Santa Cruz transit is about to get lots better (Human Transit)
Is that a gravesite? Headstone could delay Metro line extension (LA Times)
California Clean Air Day - Oct 4 - means free transit in Burbank (MyBurbank), LA Metro and Metrolink (Hoodline)
Paris has to figure out bike traffic jams (AP)
The story of another "city" built from scratch in California (SF Chronicle)
Does California spend cap-and-trade money in the most efficient way to reduce carbon? (PaloAltoOnline)
European Union will tax carbon beyond its borders (Washington Post)
The secret history of GPS (Bloomberg)

Find more California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

@StreetsblogCal

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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