Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:33 AM PDT on April 12, 2018
- If you want cyclists to follow the law, make it possible for them to do so without dying (Bike Snob)
- San Diego pledges to ramp up efforts to eliminate pedestrian deaths (San Diego Union Tribune)
- After pedestrian seriously injured, Watsonville to add a flashing beacon (Register-Pajaronian)
- Caltrain launches program to speed boarding—bikes first (Peninsula Moves)
- Bill would increase bike access on buses (Santa Monica Daily Press)
- Tesla blames the driver in fatal crash (Financial Review)
- The Oakland A’s think a gondola would solve transit at a new ballpark (NBC)
- Uber wants all the travel data (Wired)
- Lyft likes Wiener’s housing bill (SF Curbed)
- Tiny Truckee shows how to do infill (Sacramento Bee)
- The housing crisis is global, not local (CityLab)
- Activists urge Jerry Brown to phase out California oil production (Sacramento Bee)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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