Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PDT on July 5, 2016

Oakland gets a new DOT for a new kind of transportation planning (Next City)
Long Beach tries out a “pop-up” separated bike lane (KPCC)
State begins testing pay-by-mile road charge (SF Chronicle)
Green Innovation Index: California not doing so bad (Record Searchlight)
California can't rely solely on cap-and-trade (Sacramento Bee)
Traveling the country via train, bike, and bus (Modesto Bee)
Entrepreneurs won't solve climate change (Salon)
East Bay Times makes fun of Richmond for wanting to go completely solar (East Bay Times)

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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