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8:55 AM PDT on October 28, 2016

    • Oakland's strategic plan is a whole new vision for streets (SPUR)
    • Berkeley's revolutionary new bike plan (Systemic Failure)
    • Dixon build a transportation center, but no transit came; now it's available for lease (The Reporter)
    • L.A. Metro board approves electric buses for Orange Line (The Source)
    • L.A. Metro keeps getting proposals for how to spend Measure M (The Source)
    • The Bicycle Story: Fighting rape culture and misogyny in the bike industry and culture at large
    • Is “tactical urbanism” only for white people? (Albuquerque Journal)
    • Bike facilities bring higher real estate prices (Fairfax Times)
    • Density as one climate change strategy (Lisa Schweitzer)
    • S.F. Chronicle updates its “guide to biking Bay Area bridges”
    • Watch: Caltrans celebrates its 100th “News Flash” (YouTube)

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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