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Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PDT on April 18, 2018

    • Cars threaten climate goals (E&E News)
    • Bay Area transit agencies consider reduced fares for low-income riders (Planetizen)
    • Highway 101 HOV project in Santa Barbara passes legal hurdle (Edhat,KEYT)
    • SF Supervisors weigh in on e-scooters (SF Chronicle)
    • Transit-housing bill brings out proponents, opponents (Sacramento Bee)
    • Meanwhile homeless people are getting bulldozed, shifted, ignored (East Bay Times)
    • Professor Donald Shoup has a new book, “Parking and the City” (UCLA)
    • Focus on speed over safety plus Musk's personal preferences contribute to unsafe culture at Tesla (Reveal)
    • Caltrans is hiring in Bakersfield (23ABC)
    • UN declares June 3 World Bicycle Day (Bike Europe)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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