Today’s Headlines

8:03 AM PDT on April 17, 2023

Walking around Los Angeles (Pedestrian 32)
Cargobikes are more efficient for that last mile of delivery (Cycling Utah)
New express lanes celebrated in San Mateo (KQED)
The goal should be low-cost, high-quality transportation (not free fares) (The Conversation)
BART still trying to build fare gates to prevent fare evasion (SF Chronicle)
Musk under pressure from US Senators over images recorded in vehicles (Reuters)
The myth of local control (Planetizen)
CA legislature trying to pass bills that would require corporations to report their climate emissions (Kirkland)

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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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