Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PDT on April 22, 2019

Happy Earth Day! Ride transit and bike-share for free in L.A. today (LA Times)
Atascadero wants to copy Lancaster's traffic calming success (Atascadero News)
Brawley gets an electric school bus (Imperial Valley Press)
State officials to study condition of bridge decks on Richmond San Rafael Bridge (Marin Independent Journal)
Interactive website collects your street safety data (Lake County News)
A campaign in Brazil compares the cost of gas to the cost of a bike, in real time (The Drum)
Reason Foundation dreams of wider, faster highways built (and maintained?) with a bigger debt load (Orange County Register)
San Diego residents would rather ban scooters than create a safe place to ride them (NBC)
Tired of being recognized, bike thief returns an expensive bike he stole (Bicycling)

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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