Today’s Headlines

8:53 AM PST on February 4, 2016

Today: Watch old Bay Bridge being dismantled live (YouTube)
Renderings of possible Bay Bridge west span bike touchdown are kind of insane (SFist)
California's gas tax is evaporating (LA Times)
Newport Beach to widen road, slap on bike lanes (LA Times)
Why do we blame pedestrians when they get hit? (FrontBurner)
Here's how you can hide a motor in a bike tube (Business Insider)
Tribe says Caltrans violated historic preservation laws when it built Willits Bypass (Indian Country Today)
Writer finds a way to blame government for high gas prices (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Response to Porter Ranch methane leak has been very different from what happens in less affluent communities (City Lab)

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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