Today’s Headlines

10:01 AM PST on November 16, 2016

SF's Van Ness Avenue set for 3-year BRT construction; first, no more left-turn pockets (SFGate)
AAA predicts busiest Thanksgiving travel in nine years (Mercury News)
Kern County transit to be run by National Express Transit (Mass Transit)
USDOT awards $11M to UC Berkeley and San Francisco to reduce congestion (California Magazine)
That rise in traffic fatalities? Because apps (NY Times)
Why urban areas must champion efforts to mitigate climate change (New Times)
Six things city builders can learn from this election (Modacity)
NRDC's City Energy Project: Reducing energy and water use in 20 cities
The differences between capacity of roads and public transit (D Magazine)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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