Today’s Headlines

3:46 PM PDT on April 7, 2015

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.

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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