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)

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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