Today’s Headlines

8:27 AM PDT on April 21, 2017

Study: Commuting by bike can cut cancer, heart disease (BBC News)
Menlo park approves Oak Grove bike boulevard (Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition)
More than 90 percent of Californians live with unhealthy air (Capital Public Radio)
Cultivating a non-automobile focus in transportation planning (MikeOnTraffic)
How we will fund the transportation bill (East Bay Times)
CA High-Speed Rail issues first bonds to pay for construction (Bloomberg)
Can infill development solve the housing crisis and climate change? (Sacramento News and Review)
Senator Wiener calls for more market-rate housing (CurbedSF)
Republican legislator accuses governor of “illegal vote trading” by negotiating on transportation bill (Sacramento Bee)
California, Quebec, and Ontario working together on cap-and-trade (The Globe and Mail)
DMV says it has been cracking down on disabled placard abuse (KTVU)
The Cliff Notes version to Richard Florida's new book on The New Urban Crisis (City Observatory)
National League of Cities publishes a guide for cities on preparing for a “driverless future”

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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