Today’s Headlines

8:48 AM PDT on June 13, 2017

Here's a quick evolution of the bicycle, in honor of its 200th birthday (DW.com)
Vision Zero is making some progress towards ending pedestrian deaths (Governing)
Go Warriors! Going to the parade on Thursday? Transit will be packed; forget driving and parking. As always, biking and walking are king!
The challenges of biking while female in Tehran (Guardian)
Lawyers try to pin a tragic crash on an innocent bystander—a tree—and on Caltrans (Fresno Bee)
Actually, Mr. Perry, renewable energy is not a threat to the grid (LA Times)
California greenhouse gas emissions are down, a little (SF Chronicle)
A map of U.S. cities that have joined the U.S. Climate Alliance (National Geographic)
Lessons from forcing Austin to allow Uber and Lyft back in (Austin Startups)
- Meanwhile, Uber is imploding, but riders don't seem to care (The Verge)
Lots of open space in the East Bay is targeted for sprawl development (Oakland Magazine)

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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