Today’s Headlines

9:01 AM PST on December 29, 2015

UPS uses bikes to deliver packages (Fresno Bee)
Inland Empire freeway signed hacked for Trump (Washington Times)
Middle East refugees are using bikes to cross into Norway from Russia (ABC News)
- ...while Finland blocks bicycling refugees at the border (Washington Post)
Someone rode a Citi Bike, one of the “least adequate bicycles in recent history,” from NY to CA (Curbed)
North Carolina recommends 4-foot passing law plus new restrictions on bicycle riders (News&Observer)

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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