Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PDT on April 19, 2021

Remembering Marty Wachs (Eno Center for Transportation)
LADOT publishes its first official count of biking and walking (Mass Transit)
It would be a mistake to cede streets back to cars (The Atlantic)
Electric bikes can replace cars, save people a LOT of money - here's an example (Electrek)
Bicycles have "disrupted" French cities (Eltis)
Bringing Bay Area transit under one umbrella (RT&S)
Climate emergency is giving California the opportunity to change (Mercury News)
Lessons from California's climate policies (American Progress)
Inyo and Kern counties install EV fast-charging stations (Caltrans)
Natural Resources Agency announces $28m in urban greening projects (Lake County News)
First France, now Germany curtailing flights in favor of rail travel (APNews)
Top climate leaders will participate in "sustainability conference" sponsored by Big Oil (Heated)

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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