Today’s Headlines

8:03 AM PDT on June 21, 2017

Bike-share is expanding in the Bay Area (NBC)
BART plans improvements to bike station access and parking (BART)
The heat wave vs. planes, trains, and automobiles: a hint of what's to come (East Bay Times)
- ...and the weather's effect on roads and sidewalks (KCRA)
Cafe hit by car was not wearing a helmet; pedestrians able to get out of the way (Berkeleyside)
London mayor wants to cut car trips, encourage biking, walking, transit (Guardian)
It's not just California that has raised its gas tax—other states have too (Fox News)
Placer County to try again on tax measure for highway expansion (Sacramento Bee)
CA bill would reduce traffic fines for low-income drivers (Marketplace)
Developer finds it less expensive to increase affordable units and reduce parking (East Bay Times)
How to deal with NIMBYs (Vox)
Vanity could save the planet (Atlantic)
Bay Area Air Quality Management District moves to allow more pollution (East Bay Times)

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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