Today’s Headlines

By Melanie Curry
Nov 18, 2015

San Francisco Bicycle Coalition executive director Noah Budnick steps down (SFBC)
This Friday, ride bike-share for free in the Bay Area (preregistration required) (Bay Area Bike Share)
Supervisor calls for hearing on removing Muni overhead wires for Super Bowl party (Examiner)
The myth of “no public funding” for new Raiders, Warriors projects (San Francisco Business Journal)
Google buses are officially approved by city (SF Gate)
An interactive map on the effects of climate change on the Bay Area (Our Bay on the Brink)
Benefits that will come from California’s new building energy use law (NRDC)
Prospects for building affordable housing in Berkeley are grim (Contra Costa Times)
Cow access across SMART tracks causing conflict (Press Democrat)
More on Uber/Lyft climate change study by NRDC, UC Berkeley (CityLab)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

1 thought on Today’s Headlines

Gezellig says:

November 18, 2015 at 11:28 am

Re: Budnick, wow, short tenure at SFBC (announced Dec ’14, joined Feb ’15). It’d be interesting if there are any followup articles/analyses as to what’s been going on at SFBC/next steps/etc.

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