Today’s Headlines

8:44 AM PDT on May 8, 2023

West Oakland's decades of freeway injustice (Washington Post)
Big Oil helped shape Stanford's latest climate research (SF Chronicle)
What Santa Cruz Metro's CEO plans to do with that $40 million they just received (Lookout)
Sunline Transit adjusts service levels (KESQ)
Electrifying commercial delivery vehicles will clean up emissions fastest (ABC)
Solano County offers a "call center" with personalized help around transportation options (Daily Republic)
Morning inspiration: how one young urbanist got rid of a slip lane (Bike Portland)
San Diego protests over housing law: opponents fear parking loss and "overdevelopment" (CBS)
NIMBYs just don't wanna give up "their" potential home value (Planetizen)

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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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