Today’s Headlines

8:20 AM PDT on April 26, 2018

Republicans hope to ride a gas-tax repeal to victory (LA Times)
It's not clear how well carbon pricing schemes reduce GHGs, but they sure do help the economy (Vox)
People seem to think that riding a bike to work would take too long. Wrong (NY Times)
There are lots of things large and small we can do about climate change (NY Times)
Are we ready for autonomous vehicles? (California Bicycle Coalition)
AAA researchers find that hit-and-run crashes are increasing (Omaha World Herald)
Cute video: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu promotes biking—okay, some of it is with a stunt double (Times of Israel)

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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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