Today’s Headlines

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

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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