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8:53 AM PDT on September 28, 2015

    • CARB extends Low Carbon Fuel Standard to cut emissions (LA Daily News)  (NRDC)  (Trucking Info)
    • Redding downtown transportation plan includes road diets, parklets, green lanes, and opening a car-free mall to vehicles (Redding Record Searchlight)
    • SF mayor promises to veto any law allowing bikes to treat stop signs as yields (SF Gate)
    • More about bikelash--"paint stripe pollution"--in Coronado (CityLab)
    • Mike's Bikes grows, acquiring Bicycles Plus (Bicycle Retailer)
    • Here's the voting record for California legislators: Assemblymember Mike Gatto is the only one who never missed a vote (Sacramento Bee)
    • In Washington DC, schools will teach all second graders to ride a bike (Care2)
    • Streets in Philadelphia transformed by Pope's visit: no cars (NY Times)
    • Cars banned from Paris streets for a day (Time)
    • Diesel pollution has gone unstudied (Wired)
    • Cities and states scramble to fill gaps left by gridlock in DC (Washington Post)
    • Study: public transit generates new physical activity (Science Direct)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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