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