Today’s Headlines

9:00 AM PDT on July 15, 2015

Fed report on California bus crash: other driver at fault, but we need to safer buses anyway (Orange County Register)
Police deploy 'bait bikes' on UC Berkeley campus; bike thefts down (Daily Californian)
San Francisco Chinatown: zoning battle brewing over co-work spaces (NextCity)
Wall Street Journal discovers classes in California where adults learn to ride bikes (Wall Street Journal)
Report: Nearly one third of Californians live in poverty (Sacramento Bee)
Natalie Angier on the Smithsonian bicycle exhibit (NY Times)
Crowdsourcing app could improve Denver sidewalks (Streetsblog Denver)
The cities that spend the most on bike lanes reap the most reward (CoExist)

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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