Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PDT on May 31, 2022

Climate change is not waiting (IPCC)
USDOT grants $46m for California rail projects (Railway Technology)
SF Muni is in dire financial shape (Mass Transit)
Whoops! That was an AV, not a bike lane, that blocked a fire truck (but it was only for 25 seconds!!!) (Wired)
Why are bikes so much fun? Because they're not cars (NY Times)
Emeryville Mayor John Bauters cares about more than just bike lanes (Route Fifty)
Startup to use e-cargo bikes for delivery, not trucks (LA Times, Bloomberg)
Compton plans TOD development near its Metro station (2UrbanGirls)
Berkeley's housing boom (SF Chronicle)
How much of a difference did banning single-family zoning ban make in Minneapolis? (Governing)

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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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