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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)

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