Today’s Headlines

9:20 AM PDT on May 24, 2016

Today and tomorrow you can watch the lowering of a section of the old Oakland Bay Bridge live from your desk (YouTube)
New Expo line is a rare sign of progress in U.S. (LA Times)
- perhaps because some see only a “costly bet” (Wall Street Journal)
Golden Gate Fields donates land to complete a section of the San Francisco Bay Trail (East Bay Times)
A new dense, walkable housing development in San Diego has too much parking (Voice of San Diego)
Counties blame legislature for “inaction” on transportation funding (but are they willing to pay more taxes?): San Luis Obispo (Atascadero Times) Yuba (Appeal Democrat)
Engineers should not be designing streets (Strong Towns)
Data mash: correlations between parking and retail density, employment, housing (Street Smart)
Australia is trying to quash bicycling: increasing cycling fines and citations, while motorist violations of safe passing distance not so much (Sydney Morning Herald)

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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