Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PDT on July 30, 2019

Now anyone can ride a bike in Golden Gate park (SF Chronicle)
This short video makes a compelling case for bus-only lanes (FastCompany)
Californians are worried about wildfires (KQED)
- And they make the connection to climate change (CALmatters)
- Uh, some of them do. Others are holding their hands firmly over their eyes (Sacramento Bee)
California moves towards self-driving cars (CALmatters)
Bike lanes are great, but we'll never get them, says small town newspaper (Union Democrat)
Federal funding for bike-share? (Portland Tribune)
Caltrans is widening highway. . . lane markings (Roads&Bridges)
Highway widening begins in San Mateo County (Daily Journal)
LA Times's Vartabedian sees the demise of high-speed rail in every discussion about it
LA County has a sustainability plan, but doesn't plan to follow it (CityWatch)
Zoning laws control the definition of family (NY Times)

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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