Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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
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