Today’s Headlines

8:33 AM PDT on April 21, 2016

Oakland developers will pay an affordable housing fee (East Bay Times)
L.A. Metro also cracking down on seat hogs (Curbed LA)
Ten things to know about proposed federal congestion measures (Transportation4America)
Jarrett Walker: Why is the media obsessed with stories that claim transit is failing? (Human Transit)
What helmets do and don't do: the physics of banging your head (JustAnotherCyclist)
This simple graphic explains why widening highways doesn't work (Greater Greater Washington)
Urban trees solve so many of our problems (KCET)
We need transit villages atop BART, train stations (San Jose Mercury News)
Bill Walton is all about the bike (Wall Street Journal)

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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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