Today’s Headlines

8:57 AM PST on January 10, 2018

SF grants first permit for dockless e-bike-share (SF Examiner)
Improving communities for active transportation requires change (Alta Planning and Design)
American kids are 70 percent more likely to die before adulthood than other countries (Vox)
CA okays money to clean up freight trucks, trains, buses (Green Car Reports)
CA DMV unveils new federally approved ID, driver's license (Modesto Bee)
CA transit agencies elect board leaders (Progressive Railroading)
When car manufacturers try to make bikes, they usually get it wrong (Bike Radar)
Trek is working on “bicycle-to-vehicle” communication technology (so drivers don't have to use old tech, like eyes?) (The Verge)
CA Republicans work on reshaping their party, with assist from Schwarzenegger (Sacramento Bee)
Senate Democrats approve new leader (Capital Public Radio)
The French city that made transit free (CityLab)

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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