Today’s Headlines

8:53 AM PST on January 10, 2017

Speculation on what the Governor's budget—to be announced today—will contain (LA Times) (SF Gate)
City of Sacramento offers Urban Bicycling classes (Sacramento Bee)
A new neighborhood rises in Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
Google plans to begin testing self-driving vehicles on California roads (LA Times)
Instead of releasing raw data, Uber will create a public website showing traffic patterns (Associated Press) (Huffington Post) (NY Times)
- Uber's information will be useful for estimating travel times (The Verge)
Yes, total decarbonization of transportation is possible (Transport Environment)
Report: Cities where you can reach the most jobs via transit (Transportist)

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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