Today’s Headlines

8:51 AM PDT on May 6, 2016

Menlo Park sends plan to add bike lanes to El Camino Real “for more study” (San Jose Mercury News) (also see Streetsblog coverage)
Why does L.A. Metro want to build Bus Rapid Transit? (LAist)
Silicon Valley Transportation Authority ponders whether to cut bus service on routes with lower rider numbers (San Jose Mercury News)
Torrance refinery explosion led to jump in gas prices (Daily Bulletin)
Even in polluted cities, it is still healthier to bike and walk than drive (TreeHugger)
New York's MOMA mounts an art show about large-scale displacement, refugees (CityLab)
A big deal: Feds make it easier to build narrower auto lanes (People for Bikes)
“Hostile architecture” keeps (certain) people at bay in cities (AtlasObscura)

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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