Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PDT on May 20, 2015

Today and tonight the Ride of Silence commemorates people who have been killed on bicycles; find a ride near you (Ride of Silence)
Brown signs international climate change pact (Contra Costa Times) (International Business Times)
Students at Cal Poly Pomona protest unsafe bicycling facilities (The Poly Post)
City of Bishop planning active transportation projects (Sierra Wave)
Because only criminals ride on sidewalks: Eureka proposes a biking-on-sidewalk law to help catch bicycle-riding criminals (North Coast News)
Bicycling is increasing in Long Beach (LA Times)
More about Oakland's need for a DOT (Oakland North)
Study: What gets people excited about transportation investments (Talking Transportation)
An unfortunate backlash in Santa Monica (Santa Monica Next)
Undercounting transit users in the census (City Observatory)
ICYMI: Why Cyclists Ride Two Abreast (BikeWalkNC)

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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