Today’s Headlines

7:40 AM PDT on April 1, 2016

Bridge demolition—with video—makes way for L.A. subway station (Curbed LA)
The Mission Bay Tetris Rubics Cube rail freeway challenge (Urban Life Signs)
Credibility vs. expertise: on buying academic research (Transportationist)
An idea from New Orleans: play “mayor for a day” (Next City)

And finally, this sounds like a dream come true, but it is, after all, April Fools Day:

National Traffic Safety Board calls for federal oversight of city's unsafe streets (Systemic Failure)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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