Today’s Headlines

8:19 AM PST on February 18, 2022

More on Freedom to Walk act (SFBay.com)
Orange County makes free youth bus passes permanent - for now (Voice of OC)
A Utah experiment with free transit - to reduce air pollution - increases ridership (Town Lift)
SF considers running its own public bike-share system (SF Chronicle)
King County, WA, repeals 30-year-old bike helmet law after data shows it causes more harm than good (Cascade)
Authorities seek suspect for stealing high-end bikes around Northern California (Bicycle Retailer)
Federal report says BART extension to San Jose will take longer (Mercury News)
Robots now delivering groceries in Pleasanton (Mercury News)
Proposed solutions to the kerfuffle over UC Berkeley's enrollment cap (CalMatters)
States don't want federal guidance on infrastructure spending (Pew Trusts)

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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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