Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PDT on May 16, 2017

Contra Costa transit agencies offer discount summer youth passes (East Bay Times)
Get ready to party: Sacramento will close Broadway to car traffic on Sunday (Sacramento Bee)
Car drivers kill a cyclist every month in Orange County (OC Register)
Study: Physical separation of cyclists from car traffic is “crucial” for reducing crashes (Cycling Industry)
A look at proposed cap-and-trade overhaul (Planetizen)
Feinstein pledges to oppose all federal transportation nominees over Caltrain funding (The Hill, LA Times)
CA Chamber of Commerce joins appeal against cap-and-trade (LA Times)

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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