Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:08 AM PDT on May 6, 2019
- Study: Bike lanes need physical protection (Ars Technica)
- Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition honors bike advocates (Independent)
- Solvang opens bike month with a ride for safety (Santa Ynez Valley News)
- San Francisco’s quickest protected bike lane yet (SF Bicycle Coalition)
- Modesto considers trying out e-scooters (Modesto Bee)
- Bird Scooters struggling (LA Times)
- Uber and Lyft drivers plan to strike this week (USA Today)
- Lyft is fighting to avoid having to accommodate people with disabilities (Politico)
- Inside California’s fight against pollution (The Hill)
- San Bernardino gets federal loan to build toll lanes on the 10 freeway (Daily Bulletin)
- Court rejects plan to widen Highway 101 through redwoods (Courthouse News)
- Status report on high-speed rail in the U.S. (Curbed)
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