Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
7:56 AM PDT on April 19, 2017
- CA is making progress in reducing pedestrian deaths (Capitol Weekly)
- Alameda County funds fourteen new protected bike lanes (Bike East Bay)
- Concord BART station to get a new pedestrian walkway into downtown (Fox)
- Metrolink reopens San Bernardino, Rialto stations (Sun)
- Audit: DMV isn’t doing enough to end rampant abuse of disabled placards (LA Times, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento Bee)
- At Lafayette town hall, constituents push Senator Glazer to vote for transportation bill—he didn’t (Lamorinda Weekly)
- AAA is planning for a future where few own cars (Fast Company)
- And some are betting on transit (TechCrunch)
- Animation shows the collapse of the middle class in U.S. cities (Visual Capitalist)
- That supercomputer in our pockets can help with road redesign (GovTech)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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