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More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

By Melanie Curry

8:23 AM PDT on October 15, 2015

A nightmare on Market Street (Examiner)
California’s sweeping new policies could set a trend for the rest of the country (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Upcoming workshop in Bay Area: Transportation agencies seek public input on highway, street conditions (PR Newswire)
Twelve L.A. communities before and after transit (The Source)
Why are BART escalators always broken? (it’s not poop) (We Built This City)
In Mountain View, LinkedIn plans for a 35% drivealone rate among its employees (Peninsula Transportation Alternatives)
More “managed lanes”–toll lanes—coming in CA? (Lexology)
New paper finds problems with bike helmet safety studies (Systemic Failure)
Investigators looking at reasons behind Corona bridge collapse (Lake Elsinore-Wildomar Patch)
Behind the failure of Leap’s fancy buses (NY Times)
A city truly designed just for bikes? (Fast Company)
This is a new one: a church in D.C. says bike lanes would infringe on its religious rights (Washington Post)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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