Today’s Headlines
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8:51 AM PST on January 29, 2016
- Menlo Park considers three bike safety plans (San Jose Mercury News)
- Over $1 million in cap-and-trade funds remain unspent (LA Times)
- Two appointments made to CA high-speed rail board (Fresno Bee)
- High-speed rail may take longer, but cost less, says chief (LA Times)
- What good is a sharrow? (Fast CoExist)
- Crunching data from New York City bike-share (Next City)
- Why aren’t more people riding e-bikes? (Guardian)
- Using virtual reality to test transit routes (Wired)
- Companies developing self-driving cars push DMV for looser regulations (Gov Tech)
- Car companies are trying out the idea of “fractional ownership”—car-ownership-sharing? (Tech Crunch)
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