Today’s Headlines

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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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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