Today’s Headlines

9:04 AM PST on December 30, 2015

It's quiet out there just before the holiday. Streetsblog California wishes you a happy new year and leaves you with bikey eye candy:

The ten best new bike lanes of 2015 (People for Bikes)
L.A. bicycling’s year in pictures (CiclaValley)
The historic link between cities, transportation, and innovation (CityLab)
Just who is the villain making San Francisco housing so expensive? (The Atlantic)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

@StreetsblogCal

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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