Today’s Headlines

8:48 AM PST on February 16, 2017

Making protected bike lanes on Market Street in S.F. a reality (San Francisco Bicycle Coalition)
New design for S.F.'s Polk Street protected bike lanes will have actual “protection” (Hoodline)
U.S. traffic deaths rise again (NY Times)
Thinking about making a second transbay link—and transportation—equitable (East Bay Express)
With cap-and-trade in discussion, auctions continue (Sacramento Bee)
Maybe we should change the way we think about commute time and costs (Inverse)
CA Congressmembers urged to hold town hall meetings during recess (KQED)

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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