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8:45 AM PDT on April 27, 2015

    • Fresno still thinks making its downtown pedestrian mall "car friendly" will help it, somehow (Fresno Bee)
    • A push for free youth bus passes in the East Bay (East Bay Express)
    • In Oakland, Coliseum City developer wants public money (San Francisco Business Journal)
    • CA's first wireless electric trolley under construction in Monterey (Monterey County Weekly)
    • Play the LA River (Next City)  and develop housing next to it (LA Times)
    • Nobody needs to know why those hills are so easy for you (Cycling Tips)
    • Another great way to use all that energy produced by your stationary bike workout--washing your clothes (Cycling Weekly)
    • More about AARP livability index (CityLab)
    • Frazz has the right answer (GoComics)

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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