Monday’s Headlines

How CA can be made safer for bike riders; Imagining an Amrtrak revival; Listen to non-drivers; A singing crosswalk, for laughs; More

By Melanie Curry

8:39 AM PDT on July 17, 2023

Tune in this morning at 10 am to hear how can California be made safer for bicycle riders (KQED)
What an Amtrak revival could look like (Bloomberg)
SF Gate explains the difference between BART and Muni
The road to transportation equity requires listening to non-drivers (ShelterForce)
Walkability expert Dan Burden comes to Humboldt (Lost Coast Outpost)
This singing crosswalk might make pedestrians less resentful about having to use a beg button (WFXR)
Trying to rate cities by best and worst driving (KTLA 5)
Why Denver's Vision Zero goal is failing (Denverite)

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Melanie Curry

@StreetsblogCal

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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