Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PDT on April 18, 2023

Two people have been hit while a pedestrian signal waited for PG&E to turn it on (Berkeleyside)
In defense of healthy streets and good transit (NRDC)
BART will hit "fiscal cliff" next spring (Local News Matters)
It's not just California: transit agencies turn to states for help with funding (Route Fifty)
Hospitals and transit are both imperiled (GV Wire)
A night train from SF to LA? Run by a private company?!? (SF Gate)
A new way to measure travel efficiency: accessibility analysis is more comprehensive, straightforward (SSTI)
Continuing the conversation: Is transit a public good? (Commonwealth Magazine)
Study: Walkable neighborhoods are happy neighborhoods (Forbes)
San Jose planning a bicycle superhighway (San Jose Spotlight)
Weight of EVs is a growing safety concern (Global News)
California climate investments surpass $1 billion in 2022 (CARB)
FTA grants $14 billion to cities and states for public transportation capital investments (Smart Cities Dive)
San Francisco restaurant owners want their parklets, not parking (SF Standard)
BART readies to build housing at Rockridge station (Oaklandside)
Few Bay Area cities have met state housing plan deadline (SF Chronicle)
Court strikes down Berkeley's ban on natural gas in new construction (SF Chronicle)

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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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