Wednesday’s Headlines

• Riding the bus can be a real pleasure (Knee Deep Times)
• What are we investing in? That’s where our values are (Planetizen)
• Why building public transit in the US costs so much (NPR)
• Making streets safer by getting people out on bikes in Oakland (Oaklandside)
• Signed budget includes $5 billion for transit (KRON4, SF Standard, SF Examiner)
  • Newsom’s push for Delta Tunnel project got left out of budget deal (Sacramento Bee)
• Study finds benefits of pandemic parklets went far beyond health, well-being (UCLA Luskin Center)
• Giant one-way stroad in Central Bakersfield gets a pedestrian crossing beacon (Turn to 23)
• Now they’ve done it: Here’s a (working) bike without wheels (Laughing Squid)

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