Today’s Headlines
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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- Woefully outdated driver licensing laws kill cyclists (Outside Online)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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