Monday’s Headlines
How CA can be made safer for bike riders; Imagining an Amrtrak revival; Listen to non-drivers; A singing crosswalk, for laughs; More
8:39 AM PDT on July 17, 2023
- Tune in this morning at 10 am to hear how can California be made safer for bicycle riders (KQED)
- What an Amtrak revival could look like (Bloomberg)
- SF Gate explains the difference between BART and Muni
- The road to transportation equity requires listening to non-drivers (ShelterForce)
- Walkability expert Dan Burden comes to Humboldt (Lost Coast Outpost)
- This singing crosswalk might make pedestrians less resentful about having to use a beg button (WFXR)
- Trying to rate cities by best and worst driving (KTLA 5)
- Why Denver’s Vision Zero goal is failing (Denverite)
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