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