Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PDT on April 5, 2023

America has invested heavily in parking, and it's killing the economy (Business Insider)
Many people have very large auto loans, and struggle to pay them off (Sacramento Bee)
The connections between cars, debt, and jail (Public Books)
Can public transit recover? (CalMatters)
EVs won't save us - we need sustainable transit (Chicago Policy Review)
SFMTA drops proposal to make Clay Street transit lane permanent (SFGate)
Santa Clara VTA moves to seize properties for San Jose BART project (East Bay Times)
April Fools' Day pranks by transit agencies (The Buzzer)
Six minutes on a bike can boost your brain power (Bicycle Network)
This is what ebikes can do for everyone (Diablo Magazine)
Picking apart Mitt Romney's claim that bike lanes increase emissions (Mother Jones)
What cities can do about the most dangerous drivers (Bloomberg)

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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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