Today’s Headlines

8:01 AM PDT on May 7, 2019

Pedestrian injuries are on the rise (Mercury News)
Beautiful bike parking in the Netherlands (Treehugger)
Few of the "best bike cities" in the U.S. are in California--Santa Monica sneaks in at #14 (Gear Junkie)
Parking! Traffic! Manteca worries about future ACE train service (Manteca/Ripon Bulletin)
Pothole vigilantes fix a problem cities can't seem to get to (My Stateline)
The best thing a city can do for itself: plant more trees (Fast Company)
Sacramento rolls out more than 250 electric car-shares (Government Technology)
As air pollution worsens, Trump administration weakens air quality rules (Salon)
- and threatens to raise tariffs again on Chinese goods--like bikes (Bicycle Retailer)
Working in a parking spot: the idea is spreading (Curbed)
Defining gentrification (Slate)
Singapore tries rooftop gardens--on buses (Yahoo News)

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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