Wednesday’s Headlines

Bike-friendly bills; We're all roadkill; Does "walk score" really say much about an area? BART's crisis intervention specialists; More

By Melanie Curry

8:20 AM PDT on May 29, 2024

Construction crews install overhead wire to electrify Caltrain rail line. Image: Caltrain

Bike-friendly bills at the midpoint (CalBike)
We're all roadkill (Slate)
A peek inside LA Metro's free "adopt-a bike" program (The Source)
Does an area's "walk score" really describe its walkability? (Fehr & Peers)
A morning with BART's Crisis Intervention Specialists (KQED)
LA Metro to test "tap-out" fare pay system to discourage fare evasion (LAist)
SF to get $3.4B from FTA for downtown rail hub (Smart Cities Dive)
Muni head Jeffrey Tumlin on the hot seat… for being anti-car (SF Standard)
Where legislators are at odds with Newsom on budget (Sacramento Bee)
- Closing prisons would help balance the budget (California Budget and Policy Center)
Millions in US face extreme heat (The Guardian)

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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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