Today’s Headlines

7:45 AM PDT on May 11, 2018

There is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. What's it gonna take, people? (Business Insider)
All for the free bananas: thousands ride on Bike to Work Day (SFgate)
San Rafael pilots a protected bike path (Marin Independent Journal)
Rising costs threaten San Rafael's multiuse path (Marin Independent Journal)
In SF, a plan to increase pedestrian crossing time at signals for safety (SF Chronicle)
Completion of downtown Berkeley BART plaza delayed (Berkeleyside)
Colorado passes law allowing local rules on bikes at stop signs (Coloradoan)
San Diego, Chula Vista among cities picked by Feds as testing ground for autonomous drone deliveries (San Diego Union Tribune)
Multimodal transportation can work in suburban and rural settings (MobilityLab)
Clean car and fuel economy standards under attack; what next? (NRDC)
How two transit agency decisions pushed the NY subway into crisis, with amazing graphics (NY Times)
Cities are using small reminders to change behavior, and it's paying off (Fast Company)

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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