Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:41 AM PDT on March 14, 2016
- BART will offer incentives to riders who take the train before peak travel times (CityLab)
- How bike counters work (Wisconsin State Journal)
- Vision Zero has yet to reduce San Francisco traffic fatalities (Hoodline)
- San Francisco is California’s finalist in federal Smart City Challenge (Gizmodo)
- What Portland, Maine can learn from the top biking city—Davis, CA (Press Herald)
- Participants in California road user charge pilot program might get access to car performance data (Gov Tech)
- Republicans insist we don’t need to raise gas taxes (Daily News)
- … while many counties, such as Contra Costa, are hoping local sales taxes will fill transportation funding gap (Contra Costa Times)
- Santa Cruz holds Light Up the Night bike ride (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- Whittier police use unattended bait bikes to nab alleged bike thieves (Whittier Daily New)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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