Today’s Headlines

8:55 AM PDT on May 28, 2015

MTC approves plan for Bay Area bike share expansion (San Jose Mercury News); Palo Alto, where the first rollout was woefully inadequate, is missing out (Palo Alto Online)
State panel seeks input on highway funding priorities and sources (Fresno Bee)
More about "floating bus stops" and bikes co-existing with transit (CityLab)
How space on quiet roads can be allocated: Grand Rapids considers two bike lanes, one shared center lane for cars (MLive)
Road widening projects still popular; the one on Highway 12 just won an award (Napa Valley Register)

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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