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9:00 AM PDT on May 11, 2015

It's National Bike to Work Week! Even Time magazine has some tips. Plan your week, wherever you are: LA (Daily News), El Cerrito (El Cerrito Patch),Pasadena (NBC), Stockton (Recordnet), Fresno (Fresno Bee), Humboldt (Times-Standard).
Amgen Tour of California begins:
- local media sees only traffic delays (Daily Republic) (Santa Clarita Valley Signal)
- ..but there is coverage of the actual event (San Jose Mercury News) (Cycling News here and here)

Brown's executive order on greenhouse gas emissions will require adjustments to SCAG long-range regional transportation plan (Daily News)
Everyone wants some of that cap-and-trade money (Sacramento Bee)
StreetsMN sees a lesson about pedestrian malls in 1968 footage of Fresno (StreetsMN)
High speed rail in California: if fares fit projections, they will be very cheap indeed (LA Times)

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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