Today’s Headlines

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

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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