Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PDT on May 17, 2018

CalBike releases its election endorsements
Ghost bikes: a photo album (Real Change News)
CTC approves gas tax funding:
- LA Metro gets $703.6 million for transit (CBS)
- LA Cañada to get $10m for sound walls (La Cañada Valley Sun News)
- Highway 101 widening in Petaluma (Petaluma 360)
- Bay Area projects: $660m (benzinga)
Rising pedestrian deaths prompt suggestions for changing streets, vehicles (JDPower)
California could pass innovative legislation on climate, energy, transportation issues (Union of Concerned Scientists)
Paris ponders free transit for all (CityLab)
Distraction in traffic (Transfers Magazine)
Reframing the case for transit (Remix)
Housing bills that have survived so far (Ethan Elkind)
Should Oakland tax empty properties? (SPUR)

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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