Today’s Headlines

8:51 AM PDT on May 4, 2020

It's Bike Month. Or Bike Safety Month. At any rate, May is for biking!
Biking is popular right now, but let's take a lesson from the 1970s (Forbes)
The bicycle couriers of lockdown (Global Cycling Network)
California legislature begins its return: Assembly back in session, with curtailed activities (SF Chronicle)
- And they first have to deal with a very ugly budget (SF Chronicle)
Fasten your seatbelts, reopening is going to be a long, slow, bumpy ride (LA Times)
Sacramento will park wifi-equipped buses, unused right now, in neighborhoods that lack wifi (Capital Public Radio, KCRA)
The next hurdle is figuring out how to make transit safe post-lockdown (AP News, New York Times)
Traffic, emissions, and fuel-tax revenues are all way down during lockdown (UC Davis)
Can the world sustain this reduction in traffic? (Brookings)
Santa Monica residents want city to restrict some car traffic (Santa Monica Daily Press)
Glaswegian builds a long bike: the Social Distandem (Bike Radar)

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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