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)

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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