Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PDT on April 27, 2015

Fresno still thinks making its downtown pedestrian mall "car friendly" will help it, somehow (Fresno Bee)
A push for free youth bus passes in the East Bay (East Bay Express)
In Oakland, Coliseum City developer wants public money (San Francisco Business Journal)
CA's first wireless electric trolley under construction in Monterey (Monterey County Weekly)
Play the LA River (Next City) and develop housing next to it (LA Times)
Nobody needs to know why those hills are so easy for you (Cycling Tips)
Another great way to use all that energy produced by your stationary bike workout--washing your clothes (Cycling Weekly)
More about AARP livability index (CityLab)
Frazz has the right answer (GoComics)

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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