Check out this week's featured stories.

1. New Report: Transforming empty MTS parking lots into affordable homes

2. Evening Budget Hearing

3. SB1 Money Comes to San Diego as MTS awarded Major Grant 

4. Catch our Executive Director, Colin Parent, Speak at the ULI Monthly Breakfast

5. Bike to Work Day Pit Stop

6. Empire Bikes Back Community Event

7. Circulate Welcomes ofo, Our Newest Corporate Member

Circulate San Diego signed on to a letter to Assemblymember Richard Bloom in support of a discounted transit pass program for low-income students. A student transit pass program is also key to “growing” transit riders and to cultivating a transit-oriented culture among young people: If riding transit is made easy and affordable for students to take to school and to work they are likely to begin making decisions about where to live and get a job based on the proximity of transit, which will in turn help promote the land use and development patterns that will support even greater transit use, and reductions in traffic and GHG emissions.

Read our letter here [PDF].

Circulate San Diego submitted a letter in support for AB 3119 (Gonzalez Fletcher), which creates a special committee to create a mobility and sustainability plan for the San Diego International Airport. It’s time for all the stakeholders — the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, the Port of San Diego, SANDAG, MTS, NCTD, and the City and County of San Diego to work together to craft a viable solution to facilitating multimodal access to and from the airport. Therefore, we fully support AB 3119.

Read our letter here [PDF].