Today’s Headlines

9:11 AM PDT on October 7, 2015

It turns out tech shuttles are not to blame for S.F. housing crisis (CityLab)
Oakland favors bank over bike riders (East Bay Express)
San Francisco debates “Idaho stop” law for bikes (CityLab)
Less privileged bicyclists are at greater risk (The Californian)
Paris cut smog in half on its day without cars (CityLab)

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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