Today’s Headlines

8:18 AM PST on February 22, 2022

Governments spend way WAY more on subsidizing climate-harming industries, practices than on offsets (Quartz)
Palm Springs is working on improving pedestrian safety (NBC)
Cars kill. Bike helmets don't change that (Bicycling)
Even freeways that don't get built leave scars (LA Times)
Freeways make expensive wildlife crossings necessary- construction on one begins in Santa Cruz mountains (Mercury News)
Major service cuts on LA County bus and rail begin today (LA Times, Mass Transit)
Bay Area transit is quiet, stations empty (Mercury News)
Public transit inspires poetry (LA Times)
Can Los Angeles shake its "anti-bicycling" reputation? (Momentum Mag)
Two CA bills address street harassment (Yahoo)

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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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