Today’s Headlines

9:03 AM PST on February 1, 2016

How to boost L.A.'s transit ridership (LA Times)
Ojai gets money for bike and pedestrian projects (VC Star)
Will you use it for transit or highways, California? Feds release unspent transportation money from earmarks (CityLab)
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority adopts open data policy (Planetizen)
Working elevators in BART stations are a social justice issue (TransForm)
Study finds Bus Rapid Transit brings economic development (Transportation For America)
Some bus riders prefer cars—but not all (City Lab)
How to calculate the social cost of pollution (High Country News)
BART Board adopts affordable housing policy: minimum 20 percent on BART property projects (Contra Costa Times)
Portland makes protection the default for all new bike lanes (People for Bikes)
Bicycle riders in Sydney rally against punitive laws (Huffington Post)

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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