Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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
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