Today’s Headlines

8:52 AM PST on January 5, 2016

Mapping the 200 square miles of parking in L.A. (Better Institutions)
San Jose Mercury News says CA legislature better get busy and find transportation funding
Oakland Bay Bridge bike path completion delayed until summer (Oakland Tribune)
BART fares increase with New Year (Examiner)
Levine bill to eliminate MTC is an “opportunity” (Marin Independent Journal)
The internet of transportation (Wired)
Video: Hacker says VW software cheat was sophisticated, not the work of a few rogue engineers (Systemic Failure)
- . . . and the federal government sues (Oregon Live)
Looking a little deeper into Germany's bicycle superhighway plan (Treehugger)
New Delhi moves to limit driving and ban cars because smog (Telegraph)

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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