Today’s Headlines

• 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