Today’s Headlines

9:04 AM PDT on September 8, 2016

Los Altos “Cycle Saturday” features attended bike parking (Los Altos Town Crier)
Cranky columnist calls bikeway planned for Richmond Bridge a “vanity” project for “well-funded lobbying groups” (Marin Independent Journal)
An argument to abolish bicycle lanes (Crikey)
Arguments for and against Santa Cruz transportation sales tax measure (Press Banner)
Ideas for temporary traffic calming during construction projects (MikeOnTraffic)
How CA lawmakers won climate change legislation (Tribune)
San Joaquin Valley officials beg Congress for wider highways (McClatchy)
LA Metro could do a better job with its shuttles (The Source)
Santa Monica airport shuttle shelved because few riders (LAist)
Still waiting for the transportation revolution (Future Structure)
Top five lessons from the annual Institute of Transportation Engineers meeting in Anaheim (MikeOnTraffic)

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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