Today’s Headlines

8:00 AM PDT on March 25, 2019

Not only does Caltrans want to build a new four-lane highway, it wants to keep the existing two-lane road as a frontage road (San Benito)
Once-renegade bike ride preceding L.A. Marathon is now a sanctioned event (Daily News)
Caltrans greenlights dozens of transportation projects (Action News Now)
One year after Uber's fatal crash, pedestrians aren't any safer (Curbed)
Rail grade separation projects begin in Southern California (Progressive Railroading)
New San Francisco protected bike lanes limited to a few blocks (Curbed)
Bay Area bike-share workers to vote on unionizing (SF Examiner)
Transit unions are planning for autonomous vehicles (Gizmodo)
Marin approves expanded use of e-bikes on park trails (Marin Independent Journal)
Bike infrastructure is spotty, badly maintained, and confusing for drivers and cyclists (LA Times)

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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