Today’s Headlines

8:48 AM PDT on May 28, 2019

Lompoc awarded grant to study better pedestrian and bike connections (Lompoc Record)
San Diego awarded $16m in Active Transportation Program grants (Fox)
UC Davis is studying how people are using Jump bikes (KCRA)
A new attack against spending gas taxes on streets for all users (LA Times)
Why California won't ban gas cars just yet (CALmatters)
In Ventura County: three workshops to gather community input on rail plans (VC Star)
The victim-blaming notion of making it illegal to text while walking seems to be spreading (Stuff)
Getting rid of the beg button (Yahoo Finance)
Sacramento proposes free transit for kids (Sacramento Bee)
- While Contra Costa pushes a summer youth pass for $35 (Patch)
Oakland's pothole vigilantes, hard at work (SF Chronicle)

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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