Today’s Headlines

7:55 AM PDT on May 31, 2018

Thanks to Donald Shoup, parking is now a sexy topic for planners (CityLab)
Foothill Boulevard in Claremont about to get bike, ped, stormwater improvements (Daily Bulletin)
SoCal Edison installs 1,000th EV charger (Orange County Register)
Marin County scores a Caltrans planning grant to study sea level adaptation (Patch)
Path clear for affordable apartments at Milpitas BART station (Mercury News)
Roads/parking lots/development—human-made impervious surfaces—make climate change-induced floods worse (Slate)
Seattle has “secret” underground passages for pedestrians (Seattle Times)
Cities suffer financially when local newspapers shut down (CityLab)

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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