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9:01 AM PDT on August 2, 2016

    • Pollution hits low-income communities the hardest (Capitol Weekly)
    • Reports on the death of cap-and-trade have been greatly exaggerated (Carbon Pulse)
    • Californians bought more electric cars in June than the rest of the US combined (Christian Science Monitor)
    • Redwoods curb global warming, but California won't invest in them (Mercury News)
    • Transportation sales tax measure in Ventura County gets a committee (VC Star)
    • Los Angeles isn't a suburb, and we should stop planning it like one (LA Times)
    • The bicycle problem that nearly broke mathematics (Scientific American)
    • Should a bike-share ride cost the same as a bus? (Next City)
    • Your personal fitness data is being used in surprising ways (Outside)

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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