Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PDT on May 14, 2015

Santa Barbara to update its Bicycle Master Plan (Independent)
Rail comeback in Orange County? (LA Times)
San Francisco considers subsidizing middle-class housing rentals (San Francisco Business Times)
Mark your calendar for a bike ride on the Golden Gate Bridge: Doyle Drive to close for a weekend (SF Chronicle)
What a “Creative” neighborhood looks like (CityLab)
Study: It's six times more expensive to travel by car than by bike. But we knew that. (Science Daily)
We still use bicycles to adapt to cities, not to create them: The Promise of Bicycle Urbanism (video) (The Urbanist)
Want to build a tiny house? Have to meet parking requirements? You may end up with more space for your car than for your family (Vox)
Yet more errors in the LA Times article on high speed rail fares (CAHSR)
Report: Transit times longer for people of color (StarTribune)

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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