Today’s Headlines

8:23 AM PST on February 28, 2017

Oakland gets a “pedestrian safety czar” (Next City)
Palo Alto bike-share plan takes another turn (Palo Alto Online)
More on CA bill to allow bike riders to make rolling stops when safe (San Diego Union Tribune)
Suggestion: 55% voter threshold for maintenance, not new infrastructure (Getting Around Sac)
Hoverbike! (Washington Post)
Despite Uber's denial, investigation finds that technology was at fault when self-driving car ran a red light (NY Times)
Op-ed: Governor Brown, it's time to do what you know is the right thing on the environment (Capitol Weekly)
An engineer makes the case for eliminating bias from planning vocabulary (ITE)
CA gas prices set to rise due to supply issues. No worries---it's nothing like that enormous, economy-killing price hike from cap-and-trade. Oh, wait, no--other way around (Mercury News)

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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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