Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PDT on July 5, 2017

Ridership on Metrolink's southern extension is growing (Press-Enterprise)
Parking lot operators use CEQA to slow LAX improvements (LA Times)
Berkeley tries to solve a complicated intersection with a double roundabout and a distant bike-ped bridge (Berkeleyside)
CTC allocates $593 million for road, transit projects (SCVNews)
- Bakersfield, Kern County get some money for wider roads, transit (Bakersfield.com,23ABC)
- Santa Barbara transit gets funds for free passes, transit service expansion (Santa Inez Valley News)
- Caltrans sees more money in its future (LA Times)
As U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds high-speed rail (The Transport Politic)
Time to make Uber a cooperative (Salon)
Seattle considers a bike license fee, but should learn from the past (Seattle Times)
How Barcelona is reducing car trips (Cities Today)
Elon Musk's tunnel is sounding more like transit (Curbed)

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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