Today’s Headlines
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9:29 AM PST on December 13, 2016
- Castroville holds groundbreaking for bike pedestrian bridge (KION)
- A transit village rises in Milpitas (East Bay Times)
- Study: Bicyclists could be safer if they don’t stop at stop signs (DNA info) (Chicago Tribune)
- CA Senator Mendoza introduces infrastructure bill (California Newswire)
- Unstoppable: A bicyclist survives a serious crash (Berkeleyside)
- USC leads multi-university transportation research center (USC)
- Strong Towns Best of 2016: Is your city pedestrian-unfriendly?
- Is urban truck traffic really rising? (SSTI)
- Mapping the unequal benefits of electric vehicles (City Lab)
- Smart growth and “smart cities” (Transportist)
- Urban transportation has a “camel” problem—peak hour traffic (City Observatory)
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