Today’s Headlines

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)

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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