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Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PDT on June 23, 2015

    • San Francisco's high rents are partly caused by the suburbs (Slate)
    • Oakland's infrastructure is so bad, the mayor tripped and broke her hand (SFist)
    • Southern California projects will receive Affordable Housing program grants (KPCC)
    • CityLab discusses SF's move to ban turns on Market Street (CityLab)
    • The rise of radical pedestrianism in US cities (The Guardian)
    • The argument for cycletrack networks (Washington Post)

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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