Today’s Headlines

8:47 AM PDT on May 2, 2022

Good morning! It's Bike Month!! Which is a great time to remember to prioritize the climate crisis (IPCC)
Highway crashes are far more expensive than congestion (Public Square)
S.F.'s new BRT proves that giving transit priority makes transit work better (SF Chronicle)
More on L.A.'s new "rapid bus" (LAist)
In San Diego, scooter use is up again... so city plans a "crackdown" (San Diego Union Tribune)
Introducing Sonoma County's Bike Champion of the Year (Patch)
Napa County embraces Bike Month (Napa Valley Register)
Even Texas is revolting against freeways (The Guardian)
L.A. mayoral candidates debate public transit, homelessness (CSULA)
- ...a forum from which BLM activists were dragged away (LA Times)
COVID cases on the rise (LA Times)

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Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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