Today’s Headlines

8:41 AM PDT on August 10, 2015

Morgan Hill gives up on downtown road diet experiment (Morgan Hill Times)
Bike injuries dropping in San Luis Obispo County because more bikes (Tribune News)
Safer Market Street will prohibit most cars, reduce traffic conflicts on San Francisco's main street, starting this week (Moving SF)
Streets in San Fernando Valley will be used for stormwater retention (My News LA)
Metropolitan Transportation Commission embarks on study of parking as a regional issue in SF Bay Area (Bay Area Monitor)
Pundits begin weighing in on funding CA transportation in preparation for special legislative session beginning next week (San Diego Union-Tribune)
US Senator introduces bill to raise gas tax (The Hill)
How driverless cabs could reduce urban traffic (The Atlantic)

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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