Today’s Headlines
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9:06 AM PDT on April 27, 2016
- Drivers in California cities rank high for fatal crashes due to speeding (SF Gate)
- Why carbon pollution from transportation plans needs to be measured (NRDC)
- Sacramento to decide whether to float a transportation sales tax measure (Getting Around Sacramento)
- . . . of which three quarters would go for roads (Mass Transit)
- San Fernando Valley wants a bigger share of proposed LA transportation sales tax (Daily News)
- New Larkspur bike bridge is a milestone (Marin Independent Journal)
- Cities aren’t designed for women, but they should be (Huffington Post)
- VW gave a presentation in 2006 showing how to trick emission tests (NY Times)
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