Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PDT on March 30, 2023

Biking is not a crime (CalBike)
The joys of walking (Planetizen)
SDSU awarded grant to research safer streets for pedestrians, bicyclists (SDSU)
A theory aimed at making communities better gives rise to paranoid hysteria, personal attacks (New York Times)
USDOT allots $4.6M to California in emergency infrastructure (hwy) funding
Stop building new highways (Bloomberg)
Sustainable transportation for rural communities (The Regulatory Review)
Turns out Nathan Fletcher - sponsor of California's e-bike incentive administrator - quit his campaign for Senate when he saw a lawsuit heading his way (US News, San Diego Union Tribune)
Tejon Ranch Co. determined to find a way to develop sprawl on its land (Bakersfield.com)

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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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