Today’s Headlines: High-speed rail, downtown malls, data on bike collisions

9:19 AM PDT on April 28, 2015

CA legislative panel denies request for audit on high-speed rail land acquisition practices (Sacramento Business Journal)
Santa Clarita Valley residents rally against high-speed rail (Santa Clarita Valley Signal)
Stockton's downtown pedestrian mall, like Fresno's, also needs help (Recordnet)
CHP data on bike crashes: counties with highest per capita rates of bike collisions are coastal, not densely populated (Cal Coast News)
History lesson: The L.A. bike highway that never happened (Gizmodo)
Senator Beall touts his transportation funding bill (San Jose Mercury News)
Musings on how autonomous vehicles might change city space and public transit (Pacific Standard)

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.

Today’s Headlines: High-speed rail, downtown malls, data on bike collisions

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