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8:43 AM PDT on June 2, 2015

    • BART to present renovation plan for 19th Street Station--events this week (Inside Bay Area)
    • STEM Academy students envision green space on top of 101 freeway (LA Times)
    • Boohoo: all those San Francisco parking spots are going away because buses, and bikes, and parklets (SF Chronicle) (Also see Streetsblog coverage here)
    • Tamika Butler on biking for health (NRDC Switchboard)
    • Modesto to consider an urban growth boundary (Modesto Bee)
    • Coalition fights 710 tunnel (NextCity)
    • A celebration of bike-friendly cities around the world, with pictures—and a few lessons (The Guardian)
    • Japan uses mandatory safety classes to educate bicyclists who break the law--and look at the graphic: “riding while carrying an umbrella” is a traffic violation (The Japan News)
    • Smart growth is key to suburbs, too (The Registry)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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