Today’s Headlines

8:12 AM PST on February 25, 2016

Illegal parking is a plague on Oakland's buffered bike lanes (GJEL Blog)
Before (high-speed rail) pictures of Fresno (Stop and Move)
Bay Area transit payment Clipper Card expands in Sonoma County (KRON)
Video: Why BART can't run 24/7 (CityLab)
Ten states—even maybe California—could raise gas tax this year (Planetizen)
- But meanwhile the Board of Equalization lowered it, again (The Hill) (CBS)
Study finds that sea level is rising at its fastest rate in 3,000 years (Mashable)
Climate change is already a health problem in L.A. (LA Times)
Peninsula leaders consider local funds to make up for transportation funding gap (San Mateo Daily Journal)
If your city has a jaywalking problem, it's because of poor Pedestrian LOS (Systemic Failure)
These charts compare commute times and housing costs in major cities (Urban Demographics)
Want community? Build walkability (Strong Towns)

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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