Today’s Headlines

9:16 AM PST on December 9, 2016

Investments in walking and biking can pay for themselves (Streetsblog Denver)
A Sunday bike ride in a bike-friendly community (Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition)
- ….and a very long ride on an antique bike (Adventure Cycling)
California Transportation Commission awards funding, including:
- $400 million for bike lanes, pedestrian improvements in Butte County (Action News)
- $9 million for safety upgrades in Riverside (Patch)
Ignoring fare evaders can make mass transit faster and richer (Wired)
CA Democrats and the future of cap-and-trade (Climate Central)
Could you power your home with a bike? No, because we live like kings (NPR)
Artists fear Ghost Ship fire will lead to mass evictions (Guardian)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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