Today’s Headlines

• Coverage of Bay Area Bike to Work Day:
  • Beautiful machine (UC Berkeley News)
  • Oh, those crazy bicyclists, thinking anyone would want to ride a bike to work (Napa Valley Register)
  • San Mateo launches bike share on Bike to Work Day (KQED)
  • Bike counter activated on Valencia Street in S.F. (Mission Local)
  • New bike lane opens in Berkeley (Berkeleyside)
  • Officials pretend to care about bicycles on Bike to Work Day (SFist)
  • You have to work hard to stand out on Bike to Work Day (SFGate)
  • Strava declares its own Global Bike to Work Day on Tuesday; riders log 80,000 miles (Bicycle Retailer)
• This bike alarm explodes (CityLab)
• Transportation funding redux: Too many potholes, nobody wants to pay to fix them:
  • Only 3 of top 20 critical projects funded in CA (CBS Local)
  • Sacramento is “lagging”; considers local sales tax measure for transportation (KCRA)
  • The problem is Republican legislators refuse to vote for raising gas taxes (LA Times)
  • While some still refer to “pain at the pump” (Mass Transit)
• Meanwhile, report points out that Amtrak is critical for CA economy (Business Journal)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF