Today’s Headlines

8:14 AM PDT on June 17, 2019

San Rafael opens Grand Avenue bike-pedestrian bridge (Marin Independent Journal)
East Palo Alto gets a new pedestrian bridge too (Fox)
The problem with giving a dumb award: Some people want more, and this idea jeopardizes a long-promised bike connection (Marin Independent Journal)
Here's another dumb award, this one for some truly terrible bike infrastructure (Americas Transportation Awards)
In contrast, some beautiful bike projects to feast your eyes upon (Fast Company)
New BART cars to be built locally (ABC7)
LA Times grouses that cap-and-trade should not be used for clean water
Clean water is a fundamental right; long term solutions are needed (NRDC)
Instead of helping people directly, welfare funding goes to programs that preach at them--in particular black people (The Atlantic)

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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