Today’s Headlines

8:58 AM PDT on November 1, 2017

Driver uses vehicle as weapon to kill people walking, riding bikes (New York Times)
Transit hub set to open in Tuolumne County (Union Democrat)
Yolo County, Caltrans want to convert causeway bike path to HOV lane, promise a new, better bike connection (Davis Enterprise)
A look at Waymo's self-driving car testing facility in Atwater (Forbes)
Report: Climate change is already a major health issue (Huffington Post)
Rent control ballot initiative: 2018 election could be a doozy (Capitol Weekly)
Oakland to use vacant properties to house homeless (CBS)

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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