Today’s Headlines

8:43 AM PDT on June 28, 2017

Nope. Your commute is not more important than others' safety (LA Times)
Recap of workshops on regional GHG targets (Safe Routes to School)
Piedmont plants a park in an intersection to make it safer (East Bay Times)
San Rafael tries a shared-cost program to fix sidewalks (Marin Independent Journal)
New SMART train in Marin/Sonoma to offer free rides this week (Press Democrat)
Bay Area's bike-share system rethinks fare structure when bike rental companies charge unfair competition (SF Examiner)
Surprise! Data shows L.A. drivers really are the worst (LA Times)
Golden Gate bridge toll to rise a bit next week (SF Gate)
L.A.'s Vision Zero campaign raises concerns about enforcement (SPCR)
Berkeley mayor's inconsistency makes it harder to get housing projects approved (Oakland Magazine)
Autonomous vehicle testing partnership forms in CA (Mass Transit)

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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