Today’s Headlines

9:19 AM PST on December 23, 2015

Time to try an actual carpool maybe: CA has run out of stickers allowing solos driving hybrids in carpool lanes (San Jose Mercury News)
Critics file legal challenge to Google bus policy in SF (Examiner)
Lyft pickups OK'd at LAX (LA Times)
New CA laws open paths for ebikes, skateboards (California Public Radio)
New Australian law will require bike riders to carry ID (ABC)
US Secretary Foxx clears Santa for takeoff (USDOT)

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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