Today’s Headlines

8:19 AM PST on November 7, 2017

Long Beach considers road diet (Press-Telegram)
SF redesigning 17th street (SF Bay)
Glendale ponders a street car link to Burbank airport (LA Curbed)
In El Monte, bicyclists with tickets can opt for bicycle traffic safety school (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
Crank—er, “avid cyclist”—feels threatened by bike improvements (Cal Coast News)
Dockless bikeshare lands in Griffith Park (CiclaValley)
Dockless bikeshare and the tragedy of the commons (Guardian)
The upside-down mathematics of shipping building materials means long truck trips are cheaper—for the shippers (LA Times)
It's dangerous to flip people off when you're on your bike, though maybe not in the way you would expect (Washington Post)
Toronto tries to silence a parking enforcement officer who is also a bike lane champion (Pricetags)
Town finds trees are better than medicine (USA Today)

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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