Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PST on February 16, 2016

Federal Smart City challenge includes ideas for self-driving cars, adaptive signals, autonomous buses (Gov Tech)
- Sacramento's application proposes self-driving cars as feeders to transit (GovTech)
#CrashNotAccident: Words matter (Vision Zero Network)
What Justice Scalia meant for land use planning (Urban Edge)
Another reason low oil prices are a problem: recycling isn't worth the cost (NY Times)
George Runner, chair of tax authority, makes it clear he doesn't understand public transit (Sacramento Bee)
Ballot measure would take money from high-speed rail and use it for water projects (LA Times)
Of bicycles, incivility, and the disappearance of dialogue (City Watch)
The price of a parking violation at all BART stations will go up (SF Examiner)
Crash in Berkeley spurs renewed call for dedicated bike lane (Contra Costa Times)
No bikes allowed on horse bridge (LA Times)

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Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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