Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PDT on May 13, 2019

What it will cost business to do nothing about climate change: a lot (Smart Cities Dive)
Video study: Bicyclists break far fewer road rules than motorists, but they're easier to see (Forbes)
It's Bike to Work Week in Ventura County (VC Star)
Have some tacos with your transit in the OC (Orange County Breeze)
SANDAG celebrates completion of bike, transit, road projects (Times of San Diego)
San Jose mayor celebrates recovery from bike crash with a ride on Bike to Work Day (Mercury News)
Santa Barbara police wait until it's almost Bike to Work Day to conduct "traffic safety" operations (Edhat)
But somehow Santa Barbara is ranked the top bike city in California (Independent)
Federal government is attacking CA high-speed rail project (Government Technology)
How old Oakland's buildings escaped demolition (in part, by pushing out tenants) (KQED)

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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