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8:30 AM PDT on September 2, 2016

    • Welcome to September, "California Pedestrian Awareness Month" (Business Wire)
    • BART tries paying riders to avoid peak times (East Bay Times)
    • SMART urged to provide more bike parking (Marin Independent Journal)
    • Berkeley unveils city bike plan (Daily Californian)
    • Highway art, state budget, California Transportation Plan 2040: Caltrans latest Mile Marker is out (Caltrans)
    • Recap of the struggle to extend greenhouse gas emissions targets (CalMatters)
    • California's ambitious new climate commitments follow ten years of success (EDF)
    • CA legislative wins and losses (LA Times)

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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