Today’s Headlines

7:27 AM PDT on March 21, 2017

Another attempt: Bill seeks to lower fines for not stopping at red lights (Mercury News)
Bellflower approves master plan for proposed bike trail to connect L.A., San Gabriel river trails (Wave)
San Leandro Creek trail plans taking shape (East Bay Times)
Elected officials in Napa find out how time consuming it is to ride the bus (Napa Valley Register)
Is Uber not coming to Oakland after all? (East Bay Express)
L.A. mayor, leaders hold rally to “fix our roads!” (LA Times)
Study: Fare integration between agencies is not so easy (Green Caltrain)
Now it's even easier to build backyard cottages in Berkeley (Berkeleyside)
Wasteful infrastructure and our inability to maintain what we have (Strong Towns)
Is the EPA useful? Well, yes (Moyers & Company)
What free bus passes can do for ridership, parking (NextCity)
Street harassment is a public health problem (CityLab)
Bike-share is taking off in Beijing (NY Times)

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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