Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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)
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