Today’s Headlines

8:12 AM PST on December 10, 2019

We must do more to minimize impediments to walking (Bakersfield)
Fresno city councilmembers are still fighting to allow sprawl development (Stop and Move)
NTSB makes bike safety recommendations - including helmet use (Metro)
I know! I know! Let's design headphones that warn pedestrians when they're about to get run over! (Science Daily)
It's the comment period for draft SCAG Regional Transportation Plan (Patch)
CA has several housing crises (CityLab)
Cities are set to miss 2020 emissions goals (Quartz)
Great, they gave a Hollywood Walk of Fame star to a Chevy Suburban (Car and Driver)
Scary: LA cops have a new device to immobilize people (LA Times)
Bike lanes are not just a white thing (Shelterforce)

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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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