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)
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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