Today’s Headlines

9:01 AM PDT on April 29, 2015

Jerry Brown has a new Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan (Sac Bee, AP via CoCo Times)
With a dig at Caltrans, OCTA moves forward with 405 expansion, toll lanes (Register, CBS2)
Berkeley Bike Plan open house draws a crowd (Berkeleyside)
Driver kills 5, family of victims shocked he gets "probation" (Fresno Bee)
Plan Bay Area 2040 will hold open houses in Alameda, Contra Costa (PR Newswire)
Housing Costs Driving CA Residents to Poverty (LAT)
Long Beach Transit Buys E-Buses from Build Your Dreams (LongBeachize)
One way riding a bike can be dangerous (Systemic Failure)
San Luis Obispo is the state leader in bike deaths per capita (Cal Coast News)
Build your own bamboo bicycle (CityLab)

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.

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