Today’s Headlines

8:55 AM PDT on June 9, 2015

Horrible double hit-and-run emphasizes need for safer Rosemead Blvd (BikeSGV)
BART planning to close transbay tracks for maintenance work over Labor Day weekend (SF Gate) (CBS)
San Francisco's plan for new Warriors Arena includes $40 million for transit (SF Examiner)
With help from LA Weekly, high speed rail meeting should be "a mess" (LA Weekly)
Napa proposes bike and pedestrian path under Highway 29 (Napa Valley Register)
ICYMI: TOD increasing around BART (The Registry)
El Cerrito to hold meeting on Ohlone Greenway improvement plans (Contra Costa Times)
Transportation tax measure defeated in Sonoma County (Press Democrat)
BART must keep the promises it made for development at Pleasant Hill station (Contra Costa Times)
Smart cities need smart people (Huffington Post)
77 ways to design the letter "M" for "Metro" (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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