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7:55 AM PDT on October 5, 2016

    • Raising a daughter car-free in L.A. (LACurbed)
    • Coachella area to get a bike, pedestrian plan (Patch)
    • Commuting by public transit is 90% safer than driving (CleanTechnica)
    • Caltrans still focuses its safety message on bicyclists and pedestrians, not car drivers (YouTube)
      • But Drive Safely Work Week campaign gets it: Driver behavior contributes to 94 of 100 crashes (Traffic Safety)
    • BART needs money to replace corroded electrical pipes (BART)
    • SMART says no to shipping, storing gas tankers along public transit corridor (Transport Topics)
    • Obama is a YIMBY (The Urbanist)
    • Testing air bag helmets (Science Daily)

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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