Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PDT on October 17, 2016

Palo Alto's bike-share will have “smart bikes” (GovTech)
Ready for comments: a 17-mile bike trail connection San Gabriel and Rio Hondo rivers (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
Transportation sales tax measures: comparing L.A.'s to San Diego's (KPBS)
Ventura County's sales tax measure garners support from labor (Ventura County Star)
Competing visions of the future of transit show up in BART board race (New America Media)
Transit is safer than driving, and Monterey-Salinas Transit is safest (The Californian)
What your vote might mean for transportation (Daily News)
Cities are starting to eliminate excess parking (Curbed)
Uber exploits a tax loophole (Business Insider)
Hey, Leo: LA's anti-density movement is bad for the environment (Curbed LA)
Why climate change divides us (Christian Science Monitor)

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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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