Today’s Headlines

9:03 AM PDT on April 17, 2015

San Francisco mayor gets an earful about delaying pedestrian safety projects (Examiner)
More about California helmet bill (California Healthline) (Sacramento Bee)
Lots of parklets going up in L.A. (NextCity)
James Fallows really likes Fresno, and says you should too (The Atlantic)
CA bill would raise gas taxes and vehicle registration fees for road repairs (Capital Public Radio) (League of CA Cities)
We're still making highways wider, hoping it will solve something:
- Solano okays express lane project in Suisun City (Daily Republic)
- More about Caltrans widening road for bridge replacement in Niles Canyon, Fremont (San Jose Mercury News)
- Another road widening will close Santa Monica connection to PCH for a year, but in the end there will at least be a bike lane (Malibu Surfside News)
Leap says its luxury buses aren't “transit,” therefore not subject to ADA rules (SFCurbed) (SF Chronicle)

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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