Thursday’s Headlines

Napa Bike Coalition solves a bike lane sweeper problem on its own; GET CEO fired; Caltrans seeks input on PCH safety; More

By Melanie Curry

8:49 AM PDT on June 27, 2024

Kara Vernor, executive director of the Napa County Bicycle Coalition, tests out a new bike-powered street sweeper. The coalition, after fundraising, purchased the sweeper to clean up the Imola Avenue bridge protected bike lanes. (Napa County Bicycle Coalition)

Napa declined to build protected bike lanes because it said it couldn't keep them clean, so the local bike coalition bought a pedal-powered street sweeper (Press Democrat)
Berkeley should design streetscapes for passive public safety (Berkeleyside)
Instead of working with skateboarders on a safe event, SF police just plan to arrest them (Mission Local)
Caltrans seeks public input on Pacific Coast Highway safety in Malibu
Union Station plans include a rail bridge over 101 freeway (KTLA)
Bakersfield's Golden Empire Transit fires its CEO (The Sun)
A series of technical troubles interrupts BART service (East Bay Times, KQED)
Sn Diego County's SPRINTER corridor receives $10.2M federal grant to expand service (North County Transit District)
Ballot challenge to ban on oil drilling near homes dropped; expect a court challenge (Sacramento Bee)

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Melanie Curry

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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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