Today’s Headlines

8:05 AM PDT on May 10, 2017

In Santa Barbara, recognizing women who make biking better (Independent)
San Jose: Adobe supports its bike-commuting employees (Mercury News)
SCAG launches walk, bike safety campaign (Mass Transit)
New data on NY bike-share: who rides a bike instead of the bus? (CityLab)
Slower driving creates better cities (TheCityFix)
More than half the states have raised the gas tax in the past five years (Governing)
Who lives in subsidized housing? Not the poor (New York Times)
The real cause of gentrification: prohibiting new apartments where people want to live (Oakland Magazine)
Comey isn't the only one to go: U.S. Census director quits amid funding turmoil (Washington Post)
Oregon considers a tax on bikes (Bike Portland)

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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