Today’s Headlines

8:51 AM PDT on August 7, 2017

Simple design changes can eliminate the danger of crossing railroad tracks on a bike (CityLab)
San Diego's bold bicycle plan gets only partial approval from city (San Diego Union Tribune)
Oakland is on a pothole filling blitz (Patch, Hoodline)
Sacramento, Davis have an opportunity to go green with VW settlement (Sacramento Bee)
CEQA keeps being abused to block transit (Transit Talking Points)
Hilly cities take note: Lisbon is launching electric bike-share (Guardian)
For some, living in an office park is like “city living” (Washington Post)

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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