Today’s Headlines

8:17 AM PDT on October 17, 2019

Fight climate change. Ride a bike (Bicycling)
Your dream car is an e-bike (Willamette Week)
BART proposes letting its SFO riders go through security lines faster (SFist)
US EPA bypassed its own west coast team, hired political appointees to target California (New York Times)
Developer Ghielmetti retires from CA Transportation Commission, joins High-Speed Rail board (SF Chronicle)
So much work goes into fighting to protect people, environment from lax oil industry practices (NRDC)
Hostile design continues to ruin public spaces (Design Week)
Car ownership is rising (Wired)
What happens when a city bans cars? (BBC)
Caltrans says it saved $233 million by being more efficient (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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