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Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PDT on April 15, 2016

    • Ridership on Metro's Gold Line includes many new riders who use to drive to work (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
    • High-speed rail is just part of a bigger role for rail in California's future (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
    • CA serious about road user charge pilot (JDSupra Business Advisor)
    • Congrats, UCLA Med Center, on your sustainability award! Now how about recognizing bike's role in health? (Bicycle Academy)
    • Streetfilms: Tokyo has many bikes, few bike lanes (CityLab)
    • “Business-friendly” Dem Cheryl Brown gets $ from Chevron (Sacramento Bee)
    • New #FreshKermit bike lanes sweep the Twitterverse (Streetfilms)
    • San Francisco councilmember asks for economic study of housing policies (Vox)
    • CA not doing enough about housing shortage (LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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