Today’s Headlines

9:28 AM PDT on April 22, 2015

Making bikeshare accessible to low-income folks is not proving to be easy (CityLab)
More about expanding bikeshare in the Bay Area (California Aggie)
Parklets may come to Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
High-speed rail starting to apply eminent domain in Fresno (Fresno Bee)
Napa Valley's transportation plan is a little short on funds, especially for bikes (Napa Valley Register)
Fairfield City Council would support lowering the voter threshold for local transportation taxes, barely (Daily Republic)
The case against one-way streets (Wonkblog)
AARP on why transit, bikes, and walking are good for us (AARP)
Seventy-five percent increase in the cost of driving is coming! (Palo Alto Online)

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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