Today’s Headlines

8:10 AM PDT on May 12, 2015

More Bike to Work Week coverage
- 20-second commercials from OCTA
- Shocker: a reporter tries commuting by bike, encounters other, normal people that do it all the time (ABC)
- Bike-share saves the day when the DC Metro fails (Laurie Moy)
- In the East Bay, where it all began (Bike East Bay)
- ... and more (Daily News) (Contra Costa Times) (Levi Strauss)
Labor issue holding up federal grant money for transit agencies in California (San Jose Mercury News)
Federal administrators warn states that highway funding might end May 30 with transportation budget impasse (The Hill)
Caltrans report: billions more needed to maintain roads (Huffington Post)
Arcata recognized as a walk-friendly community (Times-Standard)
Sonoma County will attempt a general sales tax measure for road repair; bike and ped improvements could be included but wording is vague (Press Democrat)
BART holds online “town hall” the day after major delays, gets an earful (Contra Costa Times)
Eric Jaffe explains how the costs of parking raises rents (CityLab)

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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