Today’s Headlines

8:20 AM PDT on May 13, 2021

Instead of bus-only lanes, SFMTA approves temporary HOV lanes through town (Mass Transit)
Lafayette City Council approves plan for mid-street bike and pedestrian path (Patch)
Randal O'Toole is wrong about high-speed rail (Pedestrian Observations)
Las Vegas needs a rail connection to SoCal (Las Vegas Sun)
Uber, Lyft want state subsidies to meet EV mandates (Reuters)
Tesla auto-pilot: Back seat driver arrested, fatal crash being investigated (ABC)
Curb space is valuable, but we're just giving it away (American Planning Association)
Climate resilience: What it means and why it matters (Treehugger)

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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