Today’s Headlines

9:04 AM PDT on May 21, 2015

An interview with Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson (The Bicycle Story)
Taking public transit to California's premier park will soon be easier: new bus route from Fresno to Yosemite to open Sunday (Fresno Bee)
High-speed rail proposes station hub in Burbank (The Burbank Leader)
The streetcar is Sacramento's history and future (Sacramento News and Review)
Communities along Highway 50 want to be bike friendly (Alta Planning)
But California is still planning sprawl and widening freeways (The Mountain Enterprise)
Another rough patch for fancy transit: Leap bus suspends operations in San Francisco because no permit (Ars Technica) (SFGate)
How great are floating bus stops (StreetsMN)
Report: Bike commuting is smart (Dupress)
A call for fairness in traffic fines (LA Times)
Seminar: Challenges and opportunities in coordinating regional transit (Mineta Institute)
Bus that runs on cow manure can go very fast (Good)

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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