Today’s Headlines

9:16 AM PST on December 9, 2015

Most bicycle commuters "feel health benefits" (BikeBiz)
SF Bike Yield law passes first committee, needs at least eight supervisor votes next week (Hoodline)
Sacramento light rail won't reach airport any time soon (Sacramento Bee)
Downtown L.A. office market is heating up (Wall Street Journal)
Federal transportation bill: FAST Act pulled a fast one (City Observatory)
Local governments are losing watchdogs as free weekly papers die out (Governing)
Why aren't cities planning for self-driving cars? (CityLab)
Taking a walk in downtown L.A. with David Ulin (LA Downtown News)
San Francisco commutes getting longer for all but the wealthy (SF Chronicle)
Another exhausting year for high speed rail (Sacramento Business Journal)
Here's something for the urban planner on your gift list: Bay Area Regional Planner, the game (SFCurbed)

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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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