Today’s Headlines

7:56 AM PDT on April 19, 2017

CA is making progress in reducing pedestrian deaths (Capitol Weekly)
Alameda County funds fourteen new protected bike lanes (Bike East Bay)
Concord BART station to get a new pedestrian walkway into downtown (Fox)
Metrolink reopens San Bernardino, Rialto stations (Sun)
Audit: DMV isn't doing enough to end rampant abuse of disabled placards (LA Times, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento Bee)
At Lafayette town hall, constituents push Senator Glazer to vote for transportation bill—he didn't (Lamorinda Weekly)
AAA is planning for a future where few own cars (Fast Company)
And some are betting on transit (TechCrunch)
Animation shows the collapse of the middle class in U.S. cities (Visual Capitalist)
That supercomputer in our pockets can help with road redesign (GovTech)

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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