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9:04 AM PDT on July 6, 2016

    • Palos Verdes bicyclists protest unsafe conditions, impatient motorists (Daily Breeze)
    • Research: Building bike lanes could slow climate change (Momentum Magazine)
    • BART is for everyone, including Oakland A's pitcher Sonny Gray (SFGate)
    • More on pay-by-mile pilot road charge (East Bay Times)
    • People who benefit most from gas tax investments are the least likely to support raising gas taxes (Frontier Group)
    • We need zero-emission buses (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
    • How Google's self-driving cars share the road with bicyclists (Road.cc)
    • California GHG emissions drop—a tiny bit (SF Chronicle)
    • Business lobbyists write op-ed decrying extension of climate change policies (Sacramento Bee)
    • A letter from a utopian Los Angeles circa 2056 (LA Times)
    • Six Bay Area cities are considering rent control (Mercury News)
    • San Ramon council says yes to transportation sales tax measure (Danville San Ramon)
    • Watch Los Angeles grow over time (Curbed LA)

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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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