Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PDT on April 18, 2018

Cars threaten climate goals (E&E News)
Bay Area transit agencies consider reduced fares for low-income riders (Planetizen)
Highway 101 HOV project in Santa Barbara passes legal hurdle (Edhat,KEYT)
SF Supervisors weigh in on e-scooters (SF Chronicle)
Transit-housing bill brings out proponents, opponents (Sacramento Bee)
- and dies in first committee hearing (LA Times, CalMatters, Mercury News)
Meanwhile homeless people are getting bulldozed, shifted, ignored (East Bay Times)
Professor Donald Shoup has a new book, “Parking and the City” (UCLA)
Focus on speed over safety plus Musk's personal preferences contribute to unsafe culture at Tesla (Reveal)
Caltrans is hiring in Bakersfield (23ABC)
UN declares June 3 World Bicycle Day (Bike Europe)

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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