Today’s Headlines

7:58 AM PDT on May 21, 2018

Modesto celebrates bicycling (Modesto Bee)
Don't get too excited about Bike to Work Day (CityLab)
L.A. will convert a steep street to one-way and restrict turns for safety (NBC)
When roads prioritize cars, pedestrians are faulted for getting hit (Austin Monitor)
Urban bridges need to make room for bikes and pedestrians (Fast Company)
Brown calls gas tax repeal "a political stunt" (Daily News)
Local areas tout projects funded by gas tax:
- Highways and transit in San Diego County (KUSI)
- Main Street redesign in Woodland with bike lanes, transit, sidewalk improvements (Daily Democrat)
- Bridge over railroad crossing in Ventura (VC Star)
- Imjin Parkway in Monterey to be widened, with medians, bike lanes, sidewalks, roundabouts (Monterey Herald)
- Highway interchange in Concord will get wider, faster (East County Today)
- Highway 101 through Bay Area to get express lanes, new ramps (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Pomona to build a homeless services center (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
Kaiser Permanente to invest $200m in affordable housing (SF Chronicle)

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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