Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:32 AM PDT on May 9, 2017
- Advocates: Proposed bus service cuts to schools will harm people (East Bay Times)
- Family crusades against speeding where their young daughter died (Mercury News)
- Human bodies protect a bike lane (Bicycling)
- LA Times says CA should try letting bikes yield at stop signs, but bill is on hold (Sacramento Bee, SF Examiner)
- CA should be making it easier to walk, so no more bogus jaywalking tickets (LA Times)
- Some people have been wanting climate change policies to pay consumers for years (Huffington Post)
- Climate change is already displacing communities in the U.S. (Think Progress)
- Republicans push for a cap-and-trade program they can live with (Times of San Diego)
- High-tech “traffic solutions” will only benefit the rich (The Verge)
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