Today’s Headlines

  • Pondering Bike to Work Day (Restless Urbanist)
  • Caltrans News flash: Director Malcolm Dougherty on what Caltrans is doing for bikes
  • We aren’t lazy. So why aren’t more of us biking to work? (SLO Tribune)
  • Nevada County puts out draft Regional Transportation Plan (YubaNet.com)
  • Lake Tahoe bike trails getting spring makeover (Tahoe Daily Tribune)
  • New Yucca Loma bridge opens to people—and pets—before cars (VV Daily Press)
    • …but the bridge worries Apple Valley residents, as it will bring in more traffic (VVDaily Press)
  • Is Open Streets a glimpse into Watsonville’s bike-friendly future? (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
  • Sacramento Bee feels the need to explain its Sunday Streets event
  • Does cap-and-trade need a 2/3 vote? (LA Times)
  • Asm Melendez’s claim that SB1 “diverts” transportation money is wrong (Politifact)
  • Self-driving cars will make—er, are making—congestion worse (Vox)
  • Those ceramic dots marking freeway lane lines are going to be phased out (OC Register)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF