Today’s Headlines

8:36 AM PDT on April 4, 2016

Santa Monica's bike share is ready for the Expo line opening (Global Green)
Berkeley develops “Resiliency Strategy” (Berkeleyside)
Study looks at why bike share is so much safer than “regular biking” (Vox)
People who live in walkable neighborhoods get more exercise (Science Codex)
Two reports find that California's climate change policies will save residents money (NRDC)
California cities struggle with plans to ship coal, oil by train through them (Sacramento Bee)
Progress on high speed rail (SF Examiner)
Marin begins enforcing bike speeds on trails (Contra Costa Times)
County transportation sales tax could be a hard sell in Simi (Simi Valley Acorn)
Why is the U.S. unwilling to pay for decent public transportation? (The Conversation)

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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