Today’s Headlines

8:48 AM PDT on July 13, 2016

Electric bikes are better than driving (TreeHugger)
Plans forming for Bakersfield high speed rail station (Bakersfield.com)
SCAG is shocked: No federal grants for freight projects (LA Daily News)
Air Resources Board releases plan for future of cap and trade (LA Times)
California finds potential partners for cap and trade (Sacramento Bee)
Oil lobby's claims about climate change policies were wrong (NRDC)
Clueless article confuses Caltrans with gas tax authority, ascribes road charge test to bloated, inefficient bureaucracy (Breitbart)
The value of value capture (City Observatory)
Pokemon GO is causing waves:
- It's everything that's wrong with late capitalism (Vox)
- It's helping people discover their cities (Fast)
- It requires these etiquette tips (Streets.mn)

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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