Today’s Headlines

7:56 AM PDT on May 23, 2022

How states could "unlock" hundreds of billions in transit funding (Transit Center)
Digging into reasons behind the spike in pedestrian deaths (Popular Science)
CalBike says: Thank you, but biking and walking need more funding
Sacramento Region plans extensive bike trail network (Sacramento Bee)
Court ruling prioritizing rail use complicates plan to build North Coast trail (Mercury News)
Feeling the heat? (IPCC)
No one gets water in this drought (CalMatters)
Oh don't you worry: those leaking oil wells in Bakersfield have been "sealed" (LA Times)
San Diego's homeless count is rising (San Diego Union Tribune)
Hundreds more Oaklanders are living in cars and RVs (Oaklandside)

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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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