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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

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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