Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PST on January 10, 2019

Ford to end sponsorship of Bay Area's bike-share (Axios)
The inequity of pay-by-distance transit in the Bay Area: BART is unaffordable to people making minimum wage (Curbed)
The fallacy of local control over growth (Strong Towns)
Would you live in an apartment that used to be a BART car? (Curbed)
How European cities are dealing with transit fare evasion (CityLab)
Reasons to decriminalize transit fare evasion (TransitCenter)
Newsom creates team to work on problems at DMV (Sacramento Bee)
Sierra Club explores controversial idea: Local offsets for GHGs in San Diego (San Diego Union Tribune)
When Kate McKinnon starred in Streetsfilms as an anti-bike crusader (CityLab)
Photos compare the LA River past and present (Curbed)

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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