Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PDT on July 30, 2015

City of Cupertino will host a forum on alternative transportation next week (San Jose Mercury News)
East Oakland residents march to demand equal treatment for street cleanup, maintenance (Inside Bay Area)
Animated maps of Bay Area commutes: measuring the dispersal between work and home (CityMetric)
Architecture critic says the widened 405 freeway is ugly (LA Times)
Republicans propose cutting 3500 full-time Caltrans staff to save money; would replace them with contract workers, er, consultants (Sacramento Bee)
What I learned as an Uber driver: it's hard for people to get around (Washington Post)

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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