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Today’s Headlines

8:41 AM PDT on August 11, 2015

    • “Dutch-style” intersection unveiled in Davis (Davis Enterprise)
    • Bicyclists rally for tougher sentence for driver who killed cyclist in Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
    • LA plan calls for lots of bike, bus lanes (LA Times)
    • Northern California counties coordinating efforts to pass local transportation sales tax measures (Reuters)
    • A road user charge is still many years away in California (Sacramento Bee)
    • Transit: If you build it wrong, they might not come—looking at San Diego's BRT (State Smart Transportation Initiative)
    • The real reason US transit is such a disaster (Vox)
    • The peerless Bill Cunningham looks at New Yorker's wheels when Park Avenue is closed to cars (NY Times)
    • Helmet laws in Australia subject to Senate inquiry (The Australian)

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