Today’s Headlines

9:01 AM PDT on August 22, 2016

How bicycling can help solve global warming (League of American Bicyclists)
Transformative climate communities in California (Huffington Post)
Global Warming Solutions Act is ten years old (Air Quality Matters)
California Transportation Commission awards funds for transportation projects:
- Smart roads and Safe Routes to Schools in Inland Empire (Inland Empire News)
- Curb ramps, sidewalks, and planning in Lake County (Record Bee)
Guerrilla bike lanes show cities how easy it is to make streets safer (Fast CoExist)
Lyft cancels carpooling feature (Next City)
Oakland police accused of racial disparity in traffic enforcement practices (San Francisco Chronicle)
Fresno student roughed up by police in Fresno for jaywalking (Fresno Bee)
Sacramento Kings Arena nears completion; rest of local development not so much (Sacramento Bee)

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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