Today’s Headlines

8:47 AM PDT on May 20, 2016

Advocates hope Oakland's new Department of Transportation will transform the city's streets (East Bay Times)
If L.A. wants people to ride bikes, it should make the roads safe for them (LA Times)
All the arguments about helmets (Sacramento Bee)
Campaign for student bus passes revs up (The Californian)
BART tests new seating configurations (Systemic Failure)
Santa Clara County poll finds support for transportation sales tax (Mercury News)
CTC adopts cuts in transportation spending because low gas prices (Daily Journal)
What a smarter transportation system will look like (Next City)
America's road to economic opportunity is paved with infrastructure jobs (CityLab)
California moves toward a sustainable freight system (Union of Concerned Scientists)

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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