Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:43 AM PDT on June 2, 2015
- BART to present renovation plan for 19th Street Station–events this week (Inside Bay Area)
- STEM Academy students envision green space on top of 101 freeway (LA Times)
- Boohoo: all those San Francisco parking spots are going away because buses, and bikes, and parklets (SF Chronicle) (Also see Streetsblog coverage here)
- Tamika Butler on biking for health (NRDC Switchboard)
- Modesto to consider an urban growth boundary (Modesto Bee)
- Coalition fights 710 tunnel (NextCity)
- A celebration of bike-friendly cities around the world, with pictures—and a few lessons (The Guardian)
- Japan uses mandatory safety classes to educate bicyclists who break the law–and look at the graphic: “riding while carrying an umbrella” is a traffic violation (The Japan News)
- Smart growth is key to suburbs, too (The Registry)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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