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8:38 AM PDT on April 5, 2018

    • It's Walk to Work Day, and way past time to put pedestrians first (TreeHugger)
    • It's also Distracted Driving Month—not a celebration—and Merced police, among others, plans to step up enforcement (Merced Sun Star)
    • Davis passes bike-share ordinance, JUMP bikes coming (Davis Enterprise)
    • And he tops himself! Sacramento sheriff blames “paid protestors” for “agitating” still-unnamed deputy who crashed into a woman and drove away (Capital Public Radio)
    • Only one car company has applied for permit to test driverless cars in California (Curbed)
    • Waymo plans way more expansion of self-driving cars (The Atlantic)
    • How the humble bicycle can save our cities (Fast Company)
    • FlixBus plans to launch California routes this summer (Mercury News, Washington Post)
    • Caltrans wants input on freight plan (Progressive Railroading)
    • San Francisco Supervisors vote to oppose housing bill SB 827 (SF Examiner)
    • Cities are increasingly taxing Uber and Lyft for transit (Governing
    • South Coast Air District may reject staff proposal to regulate emissions because it might “hinder growth” (LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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