Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PDT on April 11, 2023

Tracks north of San Diego finally repaired, rail service to return (AP, San Diego Union Tribune)
Sonoma County distributes sales tax funding to public transit agencies (Press Democrat)
Bay Area hikes you can get to via transit (Mercury News)
How to get more riders on buses and trains (San Diego Union Tribune)
California zero-emission mandates gain momentum (LA Times)
Lots of videos of driverless cars clogging the streets of San Francisco (Wired)
Getting to a post-car future (Salon)
Improving gender equity in planning (Planetizen)
We can't seem to figure out how to enforce traffic laws (NPR)
Police have to release video from body-worn cameras, but they heavily edit it first (CalMatters)

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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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