Today's Headlines

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By Melanie Curry

9:12 AM PST on January 20, 2016

Governor’s proposed budget “celebrates the car” (California Health Report)
What City Observatory learned in 2015: we need more cities, new transportation policies, and investments in affordable housing
Tonight in S.F.: Community meeting about taking the Bay Bridge bike path all the way to San Francisco (Bike East Bay)
ICYMI: How to ride your bike in the rain (LADOT Bike Blog)
Riders tell Caltrain: We need more bike parking (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
A look at the all-black regiment of “badass bikers” who rode from Montana to Missoula in 1897, with pics (Gear Junkie)
Caltrans seeks drivers of all stripes for mileage fee pilot program (LA Times)
CA’s aging infrastructure getting a beating from El Niño (KPCC)
Hyperloop test track breaks ground (Tech Crunch)
Report: Impact of diesel pollutants in Europe “severely underestimated” (Eltis)
Why transit agencies should feed Twitter trolls (Urban Edge)
Does converting HOV lanes to HOT lanes increase carpooling? (State Smart Transportation Initiative)
How big cities are finding ways to nudge people out of cars (Guardian)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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