Today’s Headlines

8:54 AM PDT on March 13, 2018

Instead of outlawing distracted walking, why not just outlaw getting old? (Treehugger)
Pedestrian deaths keep rising and LA County has the most in the country (LA Daily News)
Californians divided over gas tax repeal (PPIC)
CEO of San Joaquin Regional Transit: Gas tax is a boon for transit (Comstock Magazine)
Union City mayor defends highway connector plan (Patch)
Electric scooter startups ready to expand to dozens of U.S. cities (Curbed)
SMART train meeting ridership, revenue goals (Marin Independent Journal)
CA Attorney General ordered to rewrite description of cap-and-trade Proposition 70 (LA Times)
Governor Brown urges Trump to visit high speed rail project while he's in California (LA Times)
Homeless housing projects are easily blocked (LA Times)

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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