Today’s Headlines

8:09 AM PDT on April 11, 2019

A hundred people die every day on U.S. roads (Route Fifty)
If speed limits were lower, 37,000 lives could have been saved in last 25 years (Treehugger)
Luxury car drivers more likely to cut off other drivers, pedestrians (Scientific American)
For San Jose State, parking garage is the highest priority (Systemic Failure)
Climate change policy is a wicked problem (New York Times Magazine)
In crowds, people walk according to mathematic principles (Cosmos)
It's the annual Ben & Jerry’s seminar in transportation economics (CityCommentary)
Podcast: Capitol Weekly interviews California Transportation Commissioner Carl Guardino
San Diego County to buy excess Caltrans land for a park (CBS)
Homelessness needs a regional solution, says business group (SF Chronicle)

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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