Today’s Headlines

8:05 AM PDT on May 4, 2023

Public transit is straining (Politico, Planetizen)
Megabus returns to California with cheap tickets for cross-state travel (GV Wire, ABC10, Sacramento Bee)
David Byrne on the red carpet with a beautiful bike (Cycling Tips)
The complicated project of CEQA reform (Sacramento Bee)
NYC built safe bike infrastructure, and lots people started riding bikes (Planetizen)
California shows record sales of electric vehicles (Union of Concerned Scientists)
EVs are helping reduce emissions, but only where rich people live (Bloomberg)
Automakers are "racing" to produce (giant) EVs (CalMatters)
The environmental terrorism of police helicopters (Heated)
Planners want input on redesign of Highway 237 from Redding to Anderson (A News Cafe)
Caltrans breaks ground on new bridges along Highway 99 in Madera County (Construction Equipment Guide)
Too much parking, but never a space (for free) just where you want it (Slate)
Rep. Robert Garcia takes housing vs parking conversation to the U.S. Congress (Business Insider)
What do driverless vehicles go on their downtime? Idle somewhere (AZ Central)

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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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