Today’s Headlines

8:13 AM PDT on May 7, 2020

OCTA plans to buy ten plug-in battery electric buses (NGT News)
What do states teach drivers about bicycling? Not much (League of American Bicyclists)
London expects a ten-fold increase in cycling (Guardian)
Outside Magazine will track every bicycle death in 2020
Who will ride transit now? (CityLab)
How to safely reopen (Studio Eleven)
Speculation on what reopening will be like (LA Times)
State moves to crack down on rural counties defying shelter-in-place orders (SF Chronicle)
Trump won't let CDC publish its guidelines for reopening (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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