Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:15 AM PDT on September 26, 2016
- The real way to reduce traffic congestion (hint: it’s not widening highways) (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- Where should Bay Area Bike Share—excuse me, Ford GoBike—put its stations? (Mercury News)
- Friends use “Ghost Bike” to call for harsher penalties for injuring bicyclists & pedestrians (Pasadena Star-News)
- More locals oppose high speed rail through their town (LA Daily News)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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