Today’s Headlines

8:36 AM PDT on March 22, 2016

California Transportation Commission approves $170 million for projects around state (Progressive Railroading)
Orange County Transportation Authority issues call for active transportation projects (OC Register)
Contra Costa Times accuses BART of faking service slowdown to create support for a ballot initiative (Contra Costa Times)
- ...while BART employee talks about “truth bombs” (Popular Mechanics)
A look at transit-oriented districts in California (Global Transit)
Rise in bicycling not accompanied by rise in enforcement against drivers who hit bikes (AP)
Hawaii struggles to build light rail (NY Times)

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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