Today’s Headlines

8:43 AM PST on February 7, 2018

L.A.'s traffic congestion is “world's worst” again. Maybe it's time to get out of those cars? (LA Times)
Woefully outdated driver licensing laws kill cyclists (Outside Online)
Office of Traffic Safety says that CA drivers are "putting down" their phones (but so what? They just attach them to their windshields) (Sacramento Bee)
Vallejo joins cities enforcing pedestrian safety—and blaming pedestrians, rather than street design, for crashes (Times Herald)
City of Elk Grove wants to sprawl further into farmland (Sacramento Bee)
CV Link gets state funding (CBS)
Gas tax money going for highway expansion, rail projects in SoCal (MyNewsLA)

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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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