Today’s Headlines

8:48 AM PDT on May 14, 2020

Bike to Work Day may have been postponed, but today can still be Bike to Wherever (with proper safe distancing) Day

Bicycling is "exploding" across the U.S. (The Guardian)
CTC allocates $247m to speed up, accommodate more traffic on I-5 through Santa Clarita (The Signal)
L.A. Metro needs to keep adjusting its COVID response (Transit Center)
Cases of infection remain high, as long as people can't - and some who won't - stay home (LA Times)
Contract tracing needs technology but also human power (CityLab)
Those oil tankers off the coast of Southern California may be idling, but they're still polluting the air (Grist)
Governor Newsom to release state budget revision today; no one expects good news (Capitol Weekly)

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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