Today’s Headlines

8:37 AM PDT on May 19, 2023

People across the country want transit and walkable communities (SF Gate)
Americans walk less frequently and under more dangerous conditions than people in other countries (Virginia Tech, fix your headline)
Maybe COVID made biking better (AP)
E-bikes, fifty years from now (Outside)
More on Oakland pop-up crosswalk (Oaklandside)
SANDAG budget spells out priorities, including bikes and rail (Mass Transit)
Some bills were killed yesterday (LA Times)
Watsonville plans affordable housing above its transit center (Santa Cruz Local)

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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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