Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PDT on October 22, 2018

Jenny Graham just rode her bike around the world in 124 days (Bicycling)
Downtown Berkeley gets a revamped BART station--timelapse video (BART)
CA Transportation Commission awards $$ to improve Metrolink service (Inside the Games)
- and to widen Highway 99 in the Central Valley (Madera Tribune)
- and Highway 5 in Shasta, too (Record Searchlight)
How transportation funding really works: Pedestrians, bicyclists subsidize a highway in Idaho (Idaho Press)
In San Jose, homeless families allowed to sleep in cars in a city parking lot (East Bay Times)
The problem(s) with “Humans of HUD” (CityLab)
Thanks, climate change: Valley fever is spreading (BuzzFeed)
No I'm not: Martha Stewart on being "too old" to ride a bike (People)

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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