Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PDT on May 22, 2015

Happy Memorial Day weekend. Streetsblog California will be taking a break on Monday to enjoy some bike and pedestrian infrastructure somewhere in the state. Meanwhile, here are a few things to read:

SANDAG officials still insist that expanding freeways is environmentally friendly (San Diego City Beat)
How suburban are big cities in the US? Los Angeles is more urban than you might think (FiveThirtyEight)
Here's an app that makes it easy for members of the public to weigh in on proposed legislation (Tech Crunch)
Long Beach hopes L.A., Santa Monica in race for first L.A. County Bike Share (LongBeachize)
Reclaiming city space: Tactical Urbanism explained (The Dirt)
Celebrating protected bike lanes on Oak and Fell in San Francisco (SF Bicycle Coalition)
Richmond reinvents itself (San Francisco Magazine)
ICYMI: Kids who are driven everywhere don't know where they are (CityLab)
Don't mess with Texas HSR...Actually, if it means more federal $ for CAHSR...(CAHSR Blog)
L.A.'s next light rail will open in 2016...with accompanying bike path (Santa Monica Next)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry @StreetsblogCal

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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