Today’s Headlines

8:27 AM PDT on September 7, 2016

California climate change efforts are far from over, and cap-and-trade is not resolved (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
Berkeley's draft bicycle plan is good, but not good enough (Berkeleyside)
Do traffic dangers and pollution outweigh exercise benefits of bicycling? (Spoiler alert: No) (CityLab)
Why walking helps us think (New Yorker)
We're thinking about sustainability in way too narrow a sense (Metropolis)
Maybe cities are just too complicated (CityLab)

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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