Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PDT on April 18, 2016

San Francisco's annual bike count: bike trips way up over last year (SF Examiner) (Hoodline)
BART says it will fine “seat hogs” and “manspreaders” (SFGate)
Someday, maybe as soon as 2018, San Francisco ferries will serve Richmond, Treasure Island (SFGate)
A critique of public engagement practices (Planetizen)
Upcoming Bay Area workshops on Active Transportation Program (Safe Routes to School)
The super-rich can no longer get rebates for those Teslas (San Jose Mercury News)

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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