Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PDT on May 7, 2018

Davis kicks off Bike Month (Davis Enterprise)
Celebrating lowrider bikes (CBS News)
Police blame the people on foot, not the careless drivers (Daily News)
Where Southern California's many deadly vehicle crashes occur (The OCR)
Ventura, in line for some gas tax money, opposes its repeal (VC Star)
Woodland, in line for some gas tax money, officially opposes its repeal (Daily Democrat)
SCAG gets a new president, ready to fix SoCal transportation (Inland Empire)
I can't just put my bike in storage (SF Chronicle)
US EPA's website on climate change has been offline—for “updating”—for a year (Washington Post)
Report: California housing crisis may lead to an economic one (Curbed)
Rapid transit in low-density boomtowns (Pedestrian Observations)
Advice for transit agencies facing autonomous vehicle hype (TransitCenter)

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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