Today’s Headlines

8:54 AM PDT on June 22, 2015

Santa Monica must make its streets safe for bikes (Santa Monica Daily Press)
The process of accumulating land for high speed rail continues (Fresno Bee)
DMV releases details of accidents with self-driving cars (CBS Sacramento)
CA legislature passes compromise budget (Daily Republic)
The problem with the gas tax in three charts (Brookings)
More and more cities are closing streets to cars (NextCity) including Dublin (CitiScope)
What the Uber ruling means for the future of work (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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