Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PDT on March 15, 2019

Application deadline extended for ATP technical assistance (Safe Routes to Schools)
Claiming that widening a highway will reduce emissions, without data (City Observatory)
Berkeley planners call for more signs and paint as city grapples with spike in drivers hitting pedestrians and bicyclists (Berkeleyside)
Redding plans electric express bus service to Sacramento airport; may run diesel until it can work out infrastructure needs (Redding Searchlight)
Berkeley to study expanded ferry service (Berkeleyside)
Riverside County decides it doesn't need emergency call boxes anymore (Press Enterprise)
California Transportation Commission awards money to study Highway 1 bypass at Last Chance Grade (Lost Coast Outpost)
Oregon tries to make a highway widening look good for pedestrians (it isn't) (City Observatory)
The case against lawns is strong (Curbed)
Building Trades Council says don't drop high-speed rail (CALmatters)
BART says technology fixes will prevent future "meltdowns" like last Saturday's (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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