Today’s Headlines

8:04 AM PDT on April 23, 2019

Asm. Transportation Committee Chair Frazier bows to the oil industry, and the rest of us suffer (CALmatters)
Gas prices are high, not because of state policy or anything--due to "refinery work" (Sacramento Bee)
Planners envision a greenway from Berkeley through Oakland, Emeryville, to the Bay (Berkeleyside)
After wildfires, population in North Bay falls (Curbed)
High-speed rail in the Central Valley could help with Bay Area housing, job crisis (ABC)
What does it mean to have healthy people and thriving communities? (NRDC)
It takes everybody: community engagement is vital for building resilience (Governing)
It should not take a year to get a building permit (Strong Towns)
"We're being mowed over": grieving the death of a bike advocate (DCist)

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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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