Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PDT on April 12, 2019

LADOT recommends keeping Rowena road diet, adding improvements, because it is working (Los Feliz Ledger)
Great Redwood Trail gets planning funds, settles EIR dispute (Redheaded Blackbelt)
Uber, bleeding money, sets a high value for its IPO (NY Times)
Data-driven street safety plan for schools in Tanzania offers lessons for all cities (Curbed)
BART General Manager Grace Cunican to retire (SF Chronicle)
Cities are rewarding people who ditch their car commutes (Curbed)
Another state--this time it's Oregon--considers adopting the Idaho Stop (BikePortland)
In Seattle, biking is up: We built it and they came (The Urbanist)
When local newspapers shrink, fewer candidates run for mayor (CityLab)

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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