Today’s Headlines

8:55 AM PDT on October 28, 2016

Oakland's strategic plan is a whole new vision for streets (SPUR)
Berkeley's revolutionary new bike plan (Systemic Failure)
Dixon build a transportation center, but no transit came; now it's available for lease (The Reporter)
L.A. Metro board approves electric buses for Orange Line (The Source)
L.A. Metro keeps getting proposals for how to spend Measure M (The Source)
The Bicycle Story: Fighting rape culture and misogyny in the bike industry and culture at large
Is “tactical urbanism” only for white people? (Albuquerque Journal)
Bike facilities bring higher real estate prices (Fairfax Times)
Density as one climate change strategy (Lisa Schweitzer)
S.F. Chronicle updates its “guide to biking Bay Area bridges”
Watch: Caltrans celebrates its 100th “News Flash” (YouTube)

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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