Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PDT on April 13, 2021

Will 2021 be the year California moves ahead on transportation? (Willits News)
Bill to ban fracking bill headed to its first hearing (KQED)
CA high-speed rail program hopeful over Biden infrastructure plan (Capitol Weekly)
Chaotic Berkeley intersection to get a double roundabout (Berkeleyside)
BART makes plans to resume night service, add more trains (Local News)
Bay Area traffic is back in full force (SF Chronicle)
Salesforce keeps remote-work option, but will reopen its San Francisco offices soon (Mercury News)
Watsonville disappointed by region's rejection of passenger rail plan (Good Times)
"Good design" has been ruining cities (Slate)

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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