Today’s Headlines

8:46 AM PDT on March 18, 2019

Driver runs over girl, police blame "glare" (CBS Local)
Protecting clean car, fuel standards is a moral imperative (Napa Valley Register)
How clean air transformed American cities (Salon)
Deadly air: the invisible killer (The Guardian)
Scooters and data (LA Times)
Trump removes protections on federal lands, opens them to oil, gas, coal extraction (Axios)
San Francisco could tax Uber and Lyft rides (SF Chronicle)
Desire paths: Pedestrians are gonna go where they wanna go (Mother Nature Network)
Photos from the North American Handmade Bike Show in Sacramento (Cycling Tips)
Wildflowers bring unruly, destructive crowds (Sacramento Bee)

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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