Today’s Headlines

8:53 AM PDT on April 14, 2017

Thank you, legislature, for passing a transportation bill (The Californian)
How transportation bill could help San Jose commuters (Mercury News)
BART won't have to make deep service cuts thanks to state transportation bill (SF Gate, SF Bay)
Some are already plotting to use gas tax increase for new highways (Systemic Failure)
Fear that EPA request for delays will weaken air quality rules (LA Times)
Freeway ramp metering has been in use for fifty years (Daily News)
CA cap-and-trade survives lawsuit (Huffington Post)
Anti-CAHSR reporter finds another angle for attacking high speed rail (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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