Today’s Headlines

8:19 AM PDT on August 17, 2015

Census report: SF Bay Area commuters shifted from cars (Sacramento Bee)
Poor Sausalito is drowning in cyclists (SF Chronicle)
Caltrans is up to its old tricks in Burlingame: trees on El Camino Real must be removed for “safety” (San Mateo Daily Journal)
Lodi aims to be a bicycling capital (Lodi News)
Coming up in the CA legislature: transportation, health care, climate change (Sacramento Bee)
Legislators announce bills to seek money for public transit (Transportation Infrastructure News Daily)
The five stages of grieving for changing road space allocation (Transportationist)
In Thailand, they celebrate the queen's birthday the best way: with a bike ride (The Guardian)

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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