Today’s Headlines

8:52 AM PDT on June 5, 2015

AC Transit seeks public input on desired qualities, priorities of future general manager (Contra Costa Times)
New LADOT chief of staff is Bridget Smith, lately from SFMTA (Streetsblog Tumblr)
Encinitas approves local money for RR undercrossing, aiming for matching Active Transportation Program funds (Encinitas Advocate)
San Benito County ponders transportation sales tax measure (San Benito Link)
Davis uses bait bikes to catch thieves (Davis Enterprise)
NextCity takes a look at LA Metro strategy for transit that's actually useful (NextCity)
CA senate approves package of bills to combat global warming (LA Daily News) (LA Times)
Shared-use mobility in California: a legislative briefing (NRDC Switchboard)
Statewide study shows longer yellow lights increase safety, decrease red light running (The Newspaper.com)
An interview with Charles Marohn of Strong Towns about transportation funding: “Doing nothing would be preferable to the current approach” (Governing)
The future of transport: an electric flying....is that a bicycle? Not really (Inhabitat)
And now for something completely different: Watch San Diego Supervisor Greg Cox channel Jack Nicholson from A Few Good Men in this hilarious video about the Bayshore Bikeway

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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