Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PST on November 30, 2015

Replace cars with bikes? Such a ridiculous notion! (The Daily Beast)
Sacramento Bee catches up with “theory” of induced demand, Caltrans' acknowledgement thereof--with plenty of quotation marks to keep the silly notion at arms' length (Sacramento Bee)
Vasquez Canyon Road buckles, provides great visuals (SF Gate) where skateboards briefly ruled (LAist)
Can roads built for cars work for bikes? (High Country News)
New data brings new and better information for analyzing traffic (GovTech)
UK breaks records for bike and train trips (Cycling Weekly)

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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