Today’s Headlines

8:39 AM PDT on August 21, 2017

Going car-free in Pasadena, discovering freedom (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
Stockton's “radical shift” in thinking is good for bicycle safety (Record.net)
Narrow roads are better than crosswalks (Strong Towns)
Alameda County seeks input on bike, pedestrian conditions in unincorporated areas (Pleasanton Weekly)
Report: Rail's role in the California economy (SCVnews)
Why are Trader Joe's parking lots so small? So the store can exist (KPCC)
Study: One third of Seattle traffic is people just driving around looking for parking--or riders (King5)
CA legislature back in session today: housing, immigration on agenda (The Eagle)
Newport Beach, opposed to gas tax increase, rejects funding for road repairs (LA 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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