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9:00 AM PDT on August 11, 2017

    • Santa Cruz to get dockless bike-share; Salinas should too—also trains (The Californian)
    • More on fixing California's outdated jaywalking law (LAist)
    • Report: Dockless bike-share systems are attracting investments because data mining (Bike Biz)
    • A recap of the Silicon Valley Bike Summit (SVBC)
    • Unclear on the concept, Marin balks at longer hours for carpool lanes, because “congestion” (Marin Independent Journal)
    • Congestion report doesn't tell us much about congestion (City Observatory)
      • ...and in that report “safety” means fender-benders that get in the way of traffic (City Observatory)
    • Drivers “outsmart” L.A.'s “smart boot”--that is, cheat and lie to avoid fines (NBC)
    • Caltrans is already modifying highways to accommodate self-driving cars (San Francisco Business Times)
    • A look at the pros and cons of back-in angle parking (MikeOnTraffic)
    • Will other states join California's climate pact? (The Atlantic)
    • How Prop 13 feeds the housing crisis (Berkeleyside)

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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