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7:56 AM PDT on April 19, 2017

    • CA is making progress in reducing pedestrian deaths (Capitol Weekly)
    • Alameda County funds fourteen new protected bike lanes (Bike East Bay)
    • Concord BART station to get a new pedestrian walkway into downtown (Fox)
    • Metrolink reopens San Bernardino, Rialto stations (Sun)
    • Audit: DMV isn't doing enough to end rampant abuse of  disabled placards (LA Times, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento Bee)
    • At Lafayette town hall, constituents push Senator Glazer to vote for transportation bill—he didn't (Lamorinda Weekly)
    • AAA is planning for a future where few own cars (Fast Company)
    • And some are betting on transit (TechCrunch)
    • Animation shows the collapse of the middle class in U.S. cities (Visual Capitalist)
    • That supercomputer in our pockets can help with road redesign (GovTech)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

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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