Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PST on February 3, 2022

After years of delay, pedestrian bridge will connect Warm Springs BART to riders west of station (Mercury News)
Build more bridges for people, not cars (Fast Company)
Cities are investing in bicycling infrastructure (Urban Wire)
New Berkeley bike plan should treat bike riders better (Berkeleyside)
Barstow to get electric battery buses (Daily Press)
Timelapse shows what freeway construction did to Oakland (The Bold Italic)
But we're still building freeways! New express lanes open on Hwy 101 in San Mateo County (KRON)
Nanoplastics are not just in the ocean; we're breathing them in (Fast Company)
Traffic fines should be scaled to income (The Atlantic)
CP&DR Briefs: AHSC grants, zoning and climate news bits
The fight over money, and control, of the SF peninsula's commuter train (San Mateo Daily Journal)
Utilities getting into the weeds on how to count, report greenhouse gas reductions to get money (JD Supra)

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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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