Today’s Headlines

8:38 AM PDT on August 24, 2018

SF Transit chief promises to end Muni delays pronto (SF Chronicle)
Local cities object to bill allowing BART to develop housing on its parking lots (Independent News)
Meanwhile, zoning codes reinforce car dependency (Strong Towns)
The catch-22 of retrofitting suburbs (Strong Towns)
Creating a safer Valencia Street (Medium)
Single-use plastic straws may be outlawed in California (LA Times)
- Why that needs to happen (CalMatters)

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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