Today’s Headlines
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9:12 AM PST on January 20, 2016
- Governor’s proposed budget “celebrates the car” (California Health Report)
- What City Observatory learned in 2015: we need more cities, new transportation policies, and investments in affordable housing
- Tonight in S.F.: Community meeting about taking the Bay Bridge bike path all the way to San Francisco (Bike East Bay)
- ICYMI: How to ride your bike in the rain (LADOT Bike Blog)
- Riders tell Caltrain: We need more bike parking (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
- A look at the all-black regiment of “badass bikers” who rode from Montana to Missoula in 1897, with pics (Gear Junkie)
- Caltrans seeks drivers of all stripes for mileage fee pilot program (LA Times)
- CA’s aging infrastructure getting a beating from El Niño (KPCC)
- Hyperloop test track breaks ground (Tech Crunch)
- Report: Impact of diesel pollutants in Europe “severely underestimated” (Eltis)
- Why transit agencies should feed Twitter trolls (Urban Edge)
- Does converting HOV lanes to HOT lanes increase carpooling? (State Smart Transportation Initiative)
- How big cities are finding ways to nudge people out of cars (Guardian)
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