Today’s Headlines

7:47 AM PDT on June 4, 2019

It bears repeating: Protected bike lanes make streets safer for everybody (CityLab)
Report: High likelihood that the climate crisis will destroy human civilization in your lifetime (Vice)
The economic cost of extreme weather events is much worse than they told you (The Conversation)
California is far more energy efficient than the rest of the country (Vox)
California moved its primary, upping its influence in national elections (CALmatters)
A San Francisco dispute and the future of bike-share (Wired Magazine)
Bike helmets were never designed to save your head in a car crash (Forbes)
U.N. tells U.S. government its entire housing system is a human rights violation (Shelter)

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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