Today’s Headlines

9:09 AM PDT on May 7, 2015

Three separate problems—a broken rail, a helium balloon hitting a power line, a man on the track--caused major delays on BART yesterday (SFGate) (Contra Costa Times) (Lamorinda Patch)
...and Uber prices surged (CBS)
Sacramento considers its streetcar plan (Sacramento Bee)
Bakersfield will use Caltrans grant to improve bus stops (Bakersfield Californian)
Modesto considering changes to downtown parking plan that aren't entirely Shoupian (CBS)
Mountain View prepares to release development rights to tech companies (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
A New Yorker tries to navigate LA by transit (NY Times)
San Francisco to build a raised bike lane (CityLab)
High tech solutions prevented Carmageddon when Santa Monica closed the Incline (Santa Monica Lookout)
This is how bills get passed in Sacramento (KQED)

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, 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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