Today’s Headlines

8:44 AM PDT on June 2, 2016

Bill allowing smog exemption for old vehicles passes Senate Appropriations Committee (Systemic Failure)
Video: Caltrans Director's Bike Ride 2016 (YouTube)
Fresno's pedestrian mall destroyed, with pictures (Stop and Move)
Caltrans awards $74.6 million for Low Carbon Transit Operations (SCVnews)
- Including South, East Bay transit projects (East Bay Times)
Plans for San Luis Obispo County transportation tax measure shaping up (Edhat)
We don't need your stinking gas taxes! Just: forget HSR, use cap-and-trade for roads and general funds to pay off road debts (Fox and Hounds)
Too many lives lost on our roads (AARP)
Sea level rise and rail transportation in the East Bay (Urban Life Signs)
Video: mayors of three CA cities (Oakland, Fresno, South Gate) address economic challenges (PPIC)
World's longest train tunnel (35 miles) opens through the Alps (NY 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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