Today’s Headlines

8:54 AM PDT on April 29, 2016

Hurray for Redland's bike paths (Redlands Daily Facts)
Oakland gets new bike lanes on Telegraph (East Bay Times)
Driverless buses coming to public-transit-phobic Beverly Hills—because labor costs? (Co.Exist)
HSR board approves plan to San Jose (OC Register)
BART discovers why its new car crashed (SF Gate)
Berkeley presents plans for complicated interchange, with bike ped bridge, double roundabouts (Berkeleyside)
Connecting affordable housing and transit (Mobility Lab)
Top 20 percent are increasingly insulated geographically, economically from everyone else (New York Times)
- Case in point: Stockton, not far from San Francisco, is not sharing in the rise in home values (Washington Post)
They're called “buses,” people: Fixing the American commute (Curbed)
CA's Sustainable Freight Action Plan will “shake up freight industry” (Trucks.com)

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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