Today’s Headlines
- Carsharing and the sharing economy face legal test (San Jose Mercury News)
- Systemic Failure on why a proposed bill that would ban ear buds is a bad idea (Systemic Failure)
- Writer sees a "failure" in California's east-west transportation connections—but what's the solution, super highways through forests and mountain ranges? (The Desert Sun)
- Santa Monica zoning law will soon be settled (Santa Monica Next)
- LA: Skid Row wants its own neighborhood council (LAist)
- More about the future of Bay Area Bikeshare (Bay Crossings)
- Contract awarded for Cross Alameda Trail (Inside Bay Area)
- San Jose introduces $80 million "Vision Zero" plan (San Jose Mercury News)
- ...while a Walnut Creek columnist thinks that city's pedestrian plan is a waste of effort (Contra Costa Times)
- Bicyclists can fill out official Caltrain "bike bump" forms to tell others that the train is out of room for bikes (SF Examiner)
- More money—maybe—for Muni in SF (SF Examiner)
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