Today’s Headlines

3:39 PM PDT on April 9, 2015

Fresno may get its first protected bike lanes (StopandMove)
Two more public hearings in May on SR-710 (Pasadena Now)
WalkScore puts CA cities San Francisco and Oakland in the top ten US cities for walkability (CityLab)
Equity: Traffic fines hit the poor harder (KQED)
More about the complex connection between dense cities and greenhouse gas emissions (Quartz)
Electric buses to be California-made (SFGate)
In San Diego today, take public transportation to “show your support” (as opposed to every day?) (KFMB)
Comparing transit fare evasion rates to HOV and toll violation rates (streets.mn)
David Levinson muses on the meaning of transportation subsidies (Transportationist)
New website offers a calendar of events and destinations within reach of BART stations (BART)

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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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