Today’s Headlines

8:29 AM PDT on March 14, 2019

San Francisco's dangerous streets: Where bicyclists and pedestrians get hit (SF Chronicle)
Marin transit is happy with one-year results of on-demand shuttles (Marin Independent Journal)
Merced roads to see safety improvements (Merced SunStar)
UCLA forecasters see a "cooling" of California's housing market, despite huge need (CNBC)
Where housing construction is up, and where it's down (Governing)
Plan for, don't fear future job growth (Mercury News)
Get rid of parking minimums (TransitCenter)
Elaine Chao's hands-off approach to transportation is endangering lives (Curbed)
The Boeing crash is a warning to drivers of autonomous cars (Slate)
Don't worry, it has a safety strap: CA company is marketing a flying motorcycle (Union Leader)
Everyone has a climate plan, even those on the right (Grist)
Trump signs bipartisan wilderness protection bill that includes Mojave Desert (Enterprise-Record)

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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