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7:31 AM PDT on August 24, 2015

    • Sacramento prepares to (finally) update its bike plan (Sacramento Bee)
    • Bike the Bay riders follow the Bayshore Bikeway and get to ride the San Diego-Coronado Bridge (San Diego Union-Tribune)
    • San Francisco police captain gets on his bike (San Francisco News)
    • Sacramento's Blue Line light rail extension opens today (Sacramento Bee)
    • More on negotiations in the CA Senate over transportation funding (California Economic Summit)
    • Should  the cap-and-trade program rethink its definitions of “disadvantaged communities”?(CP&DR)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
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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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