Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PDT on May 18, 2023

Happy Bike to Work or Wherever Day!

Muni and BART are closer to death than we think (SF Chronicle)
CTC approves tolling plan for Highway 37 (Marin Independent Journal)
Newsom floats a climate bond (Mercury News)
New drayage trucks in California have to be electric starting next year (Wired)
- Other states are adopting those CA rules (Transport Dive)
Fresno hopes to get $250 million in state funding for infrastructure, sidewalks, parking structures (Fresnoland)

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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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