Today’s Headlines
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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
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