Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PST on January 28, 2022

Feds release new road safety strategy (CityLab)
....which for the first time acknowledges role of design (T4America)
Interview with Buttigieg about traffic deaths (Slate)
Speed limits should be 20 mph everywhere (Vice)
Can American cars be made safe for pedestrians? (Governing)
Five US cities where bike commuting is booming (Bloomberg)
LA Metro slashes service due to driver shortages (LA Times)
Santa Clara Valley transit agency installs solar grid to power its electric buses (PV Magazine)
How and why VMT needs to go down (San Diego Union Tribune)
Mr. Roadshow urges readers to pressure CTC into widening I-5 (Mercury News)
Specialized Bikes is changing the way people buy their products (Bicycle Retailer)
Where will new housing go in San Francisco? (SF Examiner)

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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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