Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

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By Melanie Curry

8:44 AM PST on January 6, 2016

Google wants to make Silicon Valley as bike-friendly as Copenhagen (Fast Company)
L.A. needs to update its community plans—and its General Plan (Zocalo)
East Bay cities’ mobile app makes it easy to report potholes (Inside Bay Area)
Fresno renovating dozens of parks (ABC)
Transportation resolutions for the new year—including an end to sharrows (Next City)
How rail transit can reshape suburbia (Next City)
The case against shaping urban corridors to act like highways (Strong Towns)
Copenhagenize tries to figure out which are the most bike-friendly cities in the world (Guardian)
A one-man ambassador for bike commuting in Abu Dhabi (The National)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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