Today’s Headlines
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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)
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