Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PDT on April 17, 2019

Tuolomne County plans to shift some of its gas tax funds to facilities, equipment, staffing (Union Democrat)
Downtown Sacramento to get "remote-controlled" cars this week (Capital Public Radio)
- What it's like to ride them (Sacramento Bee)
Painted bike lanes are car magnets (Treehugger)
Little things that matter: Bus shelters (Pedestrian Observations)
Who and what is to blame for gentrification: an A-Z list (CityCommentary)
How to build NIMBY-proof homeless shelters: make them mandatory (CityLab)
State bill would allow tolls on the crookedest street (Curbed)
Pedestrian activists in Mexico dress up to battle for safer streets (CityLab)
Wildlife bridges over highways save lives--animals and human (National Geographic)

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, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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