Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Today’s Headlines

L.A.’s Union Station aims to reinvent itself, again (LA Times) Can the U.S. curb gas cars? (Curbed) CA High-Speed Rail Authority sues Trump administration over funding (Governing) Oakland: Privatizing the public boom (Places) There’s a battle in San Diego over the future of the area’s transportation system (Voice of San Diego) Blue-collar workers do better […]

Why bicycle riders get angry, in one short video (SF Examiner) East Palo Alto celebrates opening of bike pedestrian overpass (Palo Alto Online) $40 million for LA river bike path (Curbed) Report: Make transit free to offset impacts from Uber/Lyft (SF Examiner) Numbers: Distracted driving is killing us (Mercury News) THAT housing bill is not […]

CA legislature is being played by scooter companies (CityLab) Uber and Lyft should just share the damn data already (TransitCenter) May is Bike Month, er, Bike Safety Month, so heads up! Police departments all over the state are writing tickets this week (TPGonline) New pedestrian bridge over Highway 101 opens in East Palo Alto (CBS) […]

Senate Appropriations chair Portantino holds back housing density bill S.B. 50 (LA Times) CA needs to fix this problem, now (LA Times) CA vs. Trump I: Feds renege on promises of money for CA high-speed rail (NY Times, Capital Public Radio, LA Times) Mayor: Merced is stuck in the middle of that fight (Merced Sun […]

The feminist lens on biking (Curbed) Even in areas suffering from severe flooding, “climate change” is a divisive term (NY Times) Encinitas celebrates opening of Cardiff Coastal Rail Trail (The Coast News) Video: Caltrans celebrates Infrastructure Week and building giant roads and other stuff too How will aging Californians get around? (Times Herald) California must […]

Arcata, Fremont, and Scotts Valley among 39 cities recognized by League of American Bicyclists for bike friendliness CA senators urge funding for BART core capacity project (Transportation Today News) Major opportunities for electric buses and trucks (GreenBiz) Does transit cause displacement? Not necessarily (PlanCharlotte) Federal government slows down on autonomous vehicle testing rules, CA forges […]