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By Melanie Curry

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

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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