Friday’s Headlines

• LA has a rich public transit history it can as a blueprint for a car-free Olympics (Finance-Commerce)
• SMART to expand electric shuttle service around county (Patch)
• William’s trip from Vancouver to Tijuana on public transit: how he did it (Buzzer)
• More San Diegans are using buses and the Trolley (Fox5)
• Santa Rosa plans to lower speed limits on some streets (Press Democrat)
• The impact of grants to make cities more walkable (Planetizen)
• After rejecting a stop sign and a crosswalk, La Jolla rejects just a crosswalk as “too dangerous” (San Diego Union Tribune)
• Protecting bay lands from sea level rise is a complicated business (Knee Deep Times)
  • Maybe BART’s tunnel into San Jose can provide mud to help restore South Bay marshes (Knee Deep Times)
• Solano Land Trust opens a new park in Fairfield (Times-Herald)
• An in-depth review of the Google Bike (DC Rainmaker)

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