Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
9:03 AM PDT on April 17, 2015
- San Francisco mayor gets an earful about delaying pedestrian safety projects (Examiner)
- More about California helmet bill (California Healthline) (Sacramento Bee)
- Lots of parklets going up in L.A. (NextCity)
- James Fallows really likes Fresno, and says you should too (The Atlantic)
- CA bill would raise gas taxes and vehicle registration fees for road repairs (Capital Public Radio) (League of CA Cities)
- We’re still making highways wider, hoping it will solve something:
- Solano okays express lane project in Suisun City (Daily Republic)
- More about Caltrans widening road for bridge replacement in Niles Canyon, Fremont (San Jose Mercury News)
- Another road widening will close Santa Monica connection to PCH for a year, but in the end there will at least be a bike lane (Malibu Surfside News)
- Leap says its luxury buses aren’t “transit,” therefore not subject to ADA rules (SFCurbed) (SF Chronicle)
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