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8:40 AM PDT on July 8, 2015

    • Jarret Walker analyzes LA Metro's Blue Ribbon Committee recommendations (Human Transit)
    • San Francisco's housing crisis is intransigent (Vice)
    • Santa Clarita wants a do-over on high speed rail vote (KHST)
    • Chicago program lowers bike-share fees for low-income people (Streetsblog Chicago) (Chicago Tribune)
    • ...while New York ponders what to do about low female bike-share ridership (NY Times)
    • Why business owners should support bike riding customers (Momentum Mag)
    • It's safer to walk and bike where more people walk and bike (CityLab)
    • Too much parking drives down the price of land in desirable neighborhoods (Rjohnthebad)
    • The Bay Area Infrastructure Observatory celebrates Victor Gruen, inventor of the shopping mall (BLDGblog)
    • Call for proposals for California Bicycle Summit in October (CalBike)

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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