Today’s Headlines

8:41 AM PST on February 23, 2016

Bike commuters want to complete the Santa Barbara bike plan (KEYT)
Sacramento has a plan to stop fare cheats on light rail (Mass Transit)
Clovis to host a street design festival (Fresno Bee)
San Diego is ready to go big on biking and walking (Next City)
How Google is turning cities into research labs (Fast Company)
Is value capture a silver bullet for infrastructure? (Crikey)
Battling housing measures unite and divide labor, business (LA Times)
Bicycles mean freedom from gender slavery in Palestine (NY Times)
Australia doubles down on dumb helmet laws (Systemic Failure)

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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