Today’s Headlines

8:37 AM PDT on May 26, 2015

Bike-share plans progressing in Sacramento (KCRA)
Victorville City Council moves forward with bike/pedestrian Riverwalk path (Daily Press)
Why bicyclists ride through stop signs (The Star)
Will California finally raise the gas tax? (San Jose Mercury News)
Long Beach City Council adopts position of support for SB16, which would raise gas tax and vehicle registration fees (Long Beach Post)
State agencies to host public forum on transportation issues in Fresno tomorrow (The Business Journal)
Freeway tear-downs that changed their cities (Gizmodo)
Bus bunching explained in one graphic (note: this cool visualization doesn't work with Firefox or Safari)
The link between walkability and race (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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