Today’s Headlines

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

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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