Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PDT on May 17, 2023

Is this the year California okays speed cameras? (LA Times)
What's missing from Newsom's budget proposal (CalBike)
Congressmembers urge NHTSA to prioritize pedestrian safety in vehicle ratings (Rep. Raskin)
King County explores fare-free transit (NBC)
Planned bike lanes in Berkeley fall victim to ... something very murky (Berkeleyside)
Taylor Swift is giving transit a (temporary) boost (Governing)
What Brussels learned - and can teach - about reducing car dependency (Bloomberg)
Why downtown stores are closing (it's not because of crime) (CNN)
Beautification and photo-ops vs radical reimagination of cities (Free Press Journal)

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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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