Today’s Headlines

8:12 AM PDT on July 19, 2016

Sonoma County employers working out ways to connect employees with coming SMART train (Petaluma360)
Bay Area welcomes once-shunned mountain bikers (Mercury News)
Cities are unnecessarily endangering bicyclists (Slate)
Electric bikes can help California meet emission goals (Next City)
Bakersfield road widening project is backwards, out of date, “puts cars over people” (Courthouse News)
Failing to secure state funds, San Mateo turns to feds for Highway 101 widening project (San Mateo Daily Journal)
Election Cycle: Bicyclist covers both presidential conventions (ABC)
At the Republican convention, the “most up-to-date” way to patrol: cops on bikes (Wall Street Journal)
Auto industry can do it if regulations demand it: fuel efficiency, innovation are increasing quickly in new vehicles (Fast Lane)
We need more than cap and trade (Huffington Post)

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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