Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PDT on May 20, 2022

Today is Bike to Wherever Day in the Bay Area (Bay Link)
How to get started biking (Wired)
Berkeley to test out scooter rentals (Berkeleyside)
- Santa Rosa, too! (Local News)
EV registrations are rising (USA Today)
Climate change is a problem to deal with (IPCC)
CA Transportation Commission allocates money to transportation projects (GoldRushCam)
Florida built roads, destroyed natural habitat, and we're all going to pay the price (Current Affairs)
Biden calls off oil and gas leases in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico — but not for the climate (Grist)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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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