Today’s Headlines

8:33 AM PDT on May 3, 2017

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Pleasanton transportation survey gets underway (Patch)
Vallejo highway to get pedestrian crossing beacons, new lighting (Times-Herald)
Unprecedented "highway" money available; now what? (Capitol Weekly)
California considers changes to cap-and-trade (KVCR, Boston Globe)
- It's a “sleeker” system (Vox)
- And may include returning money to consumers (CBS)
California needs this: Auto club in Iowa offers bike break-down service (KCHA News)
Autonomous buses are being tested now (Wired)

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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