Today’s Headlines
- L.A. and Caltrans Talk Protected Bike Lanes (LADOT Bike Blog)
- What’s wrong with Prop 13 (Better Institutions)
- ….and how to fix it (Better Institutions)
- San Diego changes zoning to allow a busy street to become a park (KPBS)
- Plan to turn unused parking into pedestrian promenade has Monterey’s Fisherman Wharf retailers in a tizzy (Monterey Herald)
- Photos: 4th of July Bike Parade in Long Beach (Long Beach Press Telegram)
- Berkeley approves community benefit fees from large developments (San Francisco Business Times)
- New “flex” transponders can tell toll/carpool lanes how many people are in a car (San Jose Mercury News)
- Man charged with attempted murder for running into cyclists in Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
- Is public transit a real solution to air pollution? (Efficient Gov)
- The failed promise of urban freeways, or: lessons from SF (Granola Shotgun)
- Cycling infrastructure that works, and doesn’t, from around the world (Planetizen)
- It’s smart to be dense (Streetfilms)
- Video: The physics of how bikes stay up (Road.cc)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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