Today’s Headlines
- In the Bay Area, Bike to Work Day will be old enough to drink this year (21 years old on May 14) (Bay Crossings)
- Handy chart shows the societal costs of your transportation mode choice (StreetsMN)
- Lots of excitement about the bikeshare expansion in the Bay Area–two years away (San Jose Mercury News) (American Register) (KTVU)
- NY Times wonders if the drought will slow California’s population growth (NY Times)
- Finally, more frequent service coming to heavily used transit lines in San Francisco (Examiner)
- Martinez to study ped, bike improvements on Pacheco Boulevard– oh, but, parking! (Contra Costa Times)
- Guns are safer than bicycles–wait, what? (Wonkette)
- More bike lockers coming to San Francisco (SF Examiner)
- Deferred maintenance catching up to BART (SF Gate)
- California low-carbon fuels: the tricky task of measuring trade-offs between food and clean energy (wonk alert) (The Energy Collective)
More headlines at StreetsblogLA and StreetsblogSF.
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