Today’s Headlines

9:12 AM PDT on March 25, 2016

The myth of the bicycle as free rider (Momentum)
Why the gas tax isn't enough (Sonoma West)
Bike-share is transit (USA Today)
- Though not everyone gets it (Washington Post)
How apps can help thieves steal high-end bikes (turn off STRAVA before you get home) (KTVU)
Another way self-driving cars might work.... or not (Gizmodo)
Upcoming: L.A. Transportation Summit (Broadway World)
Glendale looks at capping freeway with a park (Glendale News-Press)

Note: SBCA will be heading out early today and we won't publish on Monday in commemoration of Cesar Chavez Day. See you back here on Tuesday.

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

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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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